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Romans 4:15

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

KJV

ὁ γὰρ νόμος ὀργὴν κατεργάζεται· οὗ δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν νόμος, οὐδὲ παράβασις.

Greek NT

Lex enim iram operatur. Ubi enim non est lex, nec prævaricatio.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κατεργάζομαι
katergazomai
verb · 22×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
οὗ
ou
adverb · 24×
παράβασις
parabasis
noun · 7×
ὀργή
orge
noun · 36×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ | RP: γὰρ
  • δὲ — SBLGNT
  • δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • γὰρ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210208.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210212.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 27.—Of the Male, Who Was to Lose His Soul If He Was Not Circumcised on the Eighth Day, Because He Had Broken God’s Covenant. When it is said, “The male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he hath broken my covenant,”922922 Gen. xvii. 14. some may be troubled how that ought to be understood, since it ca…
What kind of law is it? i.e. is it a written law or is it instilled in the heart? Its efficacy, i.e. does it justify? Its beginning: should it have been given at the beginning of the world? Its end: i.e. will it last until the end, or will another law take its place? Article 1. Whether the New Law is a written law? Objection 1. It would seem that the New Law is a written law. F…
For the instruction and memory of man, God has given his law, which is expressed in the Decalogue, and which holy men of God before Moses had received from the tradition of the fathers. We teach that in this law the will of God is explained to us: what he wills and what he does not will, what is good and just and what is evil and unjust. We therefore confess that the law is goo…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:56 — The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
  • 1Cor 15:56 — The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
  • 1John 3:4 — Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
  • 1John 3:4 — Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
  • 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
  • 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
  • 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
  • 2Kgs 22:13 — Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fa
  • Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Acts 17:30 — And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
  • Col 3:6 — For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
  • Deut 29:20 — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot
  • Eph 5:6 — Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
  • Ezek 7:19 — They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Jer 4:8 — For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
  • John 3:36 — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
  • John 3:36 — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
  • John 15:22 — If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
  • Lam 2:22 — Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
  • Num 32:14 — And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
  • Rom 1:17 — For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
  • Rom 1:18 — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
  • Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 2:12 — For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
  • Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • Rom 3:20 — Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 5:13 — (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
  • Rom 5:13 — (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
  • Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Rom 7:5 — For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
  • Rom 7:7 — What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
  • Rom 7:7 — What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
  • Rom 7:8 — But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
  • Zeph 1:18 — Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy ridd