15For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.


In Context

12 and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

13 For it was not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by righteousness of faith.

14 For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

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

16 Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

17 (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

Romans 4:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:15because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:15For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:15Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.