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Because the lawn worketh wrath: for where noo law is, there is no transgression.

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Rom. 5:20• ²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded (Rom. 5:20)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)

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Rom. 1:17• ¹⁷For God's righteousness in it is revealed by faith unto faith, even as it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.” (Rom. 1:17)

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Rom. 2:5‑6• ⁵But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment,
⁶who shall render to each according to his works: (Rom. 2:5‑6)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him, for by law [is] knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 5:13,20‑21• ¹³(for until law sin was in [the] world, but no sin is put to account when there is no law;
²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded
²¹that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:13,20‑21)

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Rom. 7:7‑11• ⁷What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be. Nay, I had not known sin unless by law; for lust also I had not been conscious of, unless the law had said, “Thou shalt not lust.”
⁸But sin having taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me every lust; for apart from law sin is dead.
⁹But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,
¹⁰and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found to me unto death.
¹¹For sin having taken a point of attack by the commandment deceived me and by it slew [me]. (Rom. 7:7‑11)

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Num. 32:14• (Num. 32:14)

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Deut. 29:20‑28• (Deut. 29:20‑28)

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2 Kings 22:13• (2 Kings 22:13)

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Jer. 4:8• (Jer. 4:8)

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Lam. 2:22• (Lam. 2:22)

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Ezek. 7:19• (Ezek. 7:19)

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Zeph. 1:18• (Zeph. 1:18)

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John 3:36• ³⁶He that believeth on the Son hath life eternal, and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)

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John 15:22• ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22)

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Acts 17:30‑31• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent,
³¹inasmuch as he has appointed a day, in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom he marked out, having given assurance to all in that he raised him from [the] dead. (Acts 17:30‑31)

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1 Cor. 15:56• ⁵⁶Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:56)

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2 Cor. 3:7‑9• ⁷(But if the ministry of death in letter, graven on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently toward the face of Moses for the glory of his face, that was to be done away,
⁸how shall not the ministry of the Spirit rather be in glory?
⁹For if the ministry of condemnation [have] glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑9)

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Gal. 3:10,19• ¹⁰For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them;”
¹⁹Why then the law? For the sake of transgressions it was added, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, being ordained by means of angels in a mediator's hand. (Gal. 3:10,19)

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Eph. 5:6• ⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:6)

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Col. 3:6• ⁶on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]: (Col. 3:6)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)

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Rev. 6:16‑17• ¹⁶and they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
¹⁷for the great day of his wrath is come; and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:16‑17)

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Rev. 19:15• ¹⁵And out of his mouth proceeded a [two-edged] sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treadeth the winepress of the wine of the indignation of the wrath of God the Almighty. (Rev. 19:15)

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Rom. 2:12‑13• ¹²For as many as without law have sinned without law also shall perish; and as many as have sinned in law shall be judged by law
¹³(for not the hearers of law [are] just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified. (Rom. 2:12‑13)

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Rom. 5:13• ¹³(for until law sin was in [the] world, but no sin is put to account when there is no law; (Rom. 5:13)

• Observe, he does not say there is no sin; but where there is no commandment, there is none to violate. Now, the law being given to a sinner, wrath is necessarily the consequence of its imposition. (“Romans 4” by J.N. Darby)

• Paul then speaks of what the Law does when it is not kept. He says, "The Law worketh wrath" (“The Righteousness of Faith: Romans 4” by B. Anstey)

• The Law only increased a person's guilt, by showing men their true sinfulness. (“The Righteousness of Faith: Romans 4” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For lawb works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.

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Or "For the law."

W. Kelly Translation

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For the law worketh out wrath; but where no law is, [there is] no transgression.