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


In Context

12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised.

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

14 For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect.

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

16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he believed, even God, who reviveth the dead, and calleth those things which are not, as though they were.

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:15For law works wrath; but where no law is 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 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.