Romans 4:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Romans 4:15 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 5:13
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Galatians 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.
Romans 3:19-20
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. …
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Romans 7:7-25
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. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-17)

St. Paul observes in this paragraph when and why Abraham was thus justified; for he has several things to remark upon that. It was before he was circumcised, and before the giving of the law; and there was a reason for both. I. It was before he was circumcised, Rom. 4:10. His faith was counted to him for righteousness while he was in uncircumcision. It was imputed, Gen. 15:6; and he was not circum…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

13-15. For the promise, &c.--This is merely an enlargement of the foregoing reasoning, applying to the law what had just been said of circumcision. that he should be the heir of the world--or, that “all the families of the earth should be blessed in him.” was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law--in virtue of obedience to the law. but through the righteousness of faith--in virtue of his s…