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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• ²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: (Rom. 5:20)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4)

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Rom. 1:17• ¹⁷For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Rom. 1:17)

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Rom. 2:5‑6• ⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds: (Rom. 2:5‑6)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now 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.
²⁰Therefore 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. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 5:13,20‑21• ¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
²¹That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:13,20‑21)

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Rom. 7:7‑11• ⁷What 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.
⁸But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
⁹For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (Rom. 7:7‑11)

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Num. 32:14• ¹⁴And, 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. (Num. 32:14)

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Deut. 29:20‑28• ²⁰The 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 out his name from under heaven.
²¹And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
²²So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;
²³And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
²⁴Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
²⁵Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
²⁶For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
²⁷And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
²⁸And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. (Deut. 29:20‑28)

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2 Kings 22:13• ¹³Go ye, inquire 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 fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. (2 Kings 22:13)

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Jer. 4:8• ⁸For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us. (Jer. 4:8)

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Lam. 2:22• ²²Thou 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. (Lam. 2:22)

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Ezek. 7:19• ¹⁹They 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 their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. (Ezek. 7:19)

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Zeph. 1:18• ¹⁸Neither 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 riddance of all them that dwell in the land. (Zeph. 1:18)

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John 3:36• ³⁶He 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)

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

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Acts 17:30‑31• ³⁰And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
³¹Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts 17:30‑31)

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1 Cor. 15:56• ⁵⁶The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (1 Cor. 15:56)

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2 Cor. 3:7‑9• ⁷But 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 glory was to be done away:
⁸How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
⁹For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑9)

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Gal. 3:10,19• ¹⁰For 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.
¹⁹Wherefore 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. 3:10,19)

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Eph. 5:6• ⁶Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. (Eph. 5:6)

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Col. 3:6• ⁶For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: (Col. 3:6)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4)

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Rev. 6:16‑17• ¹⁶And said 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 shall be able to stand? (Rev. 6:16‑17)

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Rev. 19:15• ¹⁵And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. (Rev. 19:15)

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Rom. 2:12‑13• ¹²For 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;
¹³(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. (Rom. 2:12‑13)

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Rom. 5:13• ¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed 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.