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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• ²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded (Rom. 5:20)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)

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Rom. 1:17• ¹⁷For God's righteousness in it is revealed by faith unto faith, even as it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.” (Rom. 1:17)

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Rom. 2:5‑6• ⁵But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment,
⁶who shall render to each according to his works: (Rom. 2:5‑6)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him, for by law [is] knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 5:13,20‑21• ¹³(for until law sin was in [the] world, but no sin is put to account when there is no law;
²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded
²¹that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:13,20‑21)

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Rom. 7:7‑11• ⁷What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be. Nay, I had not known sin unless by law; for lust also I had not been conscious of, unless the law had said, “Thou shalt not lust.”
⁸But sin having taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me every lust; for apart from law sin is dead.
⁹But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,
¹⁰and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found to me unto death.
¹¹For sin having taken a point of attack by the commandment deceived me and by it slew [me]. (Rom. 7:7‑11)

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Num. 32:14• ¹⁴{i}And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.{/i} (Num. 32:14)

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Deut. 29:20‑28• ²⁰{i}Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;{/i}
²¹{i}and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.{/i}
²²{i}And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,{/i}
²³{i}that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:{/i}
²⁴{i}even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?{/i}
²⁵{i}And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;{/i}
²⁶{i}and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.{/i}
²⁷{i}And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;{/i}
²⁸{i}and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day.{/i} (Deut. 29:20‑28)

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2 Kings 22:13• ¹³{i}Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written there for us.{/i} (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 Jehovah 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,{HR}So that in the day of Jehovah's anger none escaped nor remained:{HR}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 as uncleanness. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; they shall not satisfy their souls nor fill their bowels, because it was the stumbling block 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 Jehovah’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 life eternal, and he that believeth not on 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 to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22)

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Acts 17:30‑31• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent,
³¹inasmuch as he has appointed a day, in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom he marked out, having given assurance to all in that he raised him from [the] dead. (Acts 17:30‑31)

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1 Cor. 15:56• ⁵⁶Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:56)

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2 Cor. 3:7‑9• ⁷(But if the ministry of death in letter, graven on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently toward the face of Moses for the glory of his face, that was to be done away,
⁸how shall not the ministry of the Spirit rather be in glory?
⁹For if the ministry of condemnation [have] glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑9)

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Gal. 3:10,19• ¹⁰For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them;”
¹⁹Why then the law? For the sake of transgressions it was added, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, being ordained by means of angels in a mediator's hand. (Gal. 3:10,19)

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Eph. 5:6• ⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:6)

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Col. 3:6• ⁶on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]: (Col. 3:6)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)

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Rev. 6:16‑17• ¹⁶and they say 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 is able to stand? (Rev. 6:16‑17)

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Rev. 19:15• ¹⁵And out of his mouth proceeded a [two-edged] sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treadeth the winepress of the wine of the indignation of the wrath of God the Almighty. (Rev. 19:15)

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Rom. 2:12‑13• ¹²For as many as without law have sinned without law also shall perish; and as many as have sinned in law shall be judged by law
¹³(for not the hearers of law [are] just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified. (Rom. 2:12‑13)

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Rom. 5:13• ¹³(for until law sin was in [the] world, but no sin is put to account 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.