Romans 4:15 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁵ Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

³⁰ True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance, ³¹ Because he has fixed a day on which he intends to 'judge the world with justice,' by a man whom he has appointed--and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man from the dead."

¹⁷ For in it there is a revelation of the Divine Righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as Scripture says- -'Through faith the righteous man shall find Life.'

⁵ Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself Wrath on the 'Day of Wrath,' when God's justice as a judge will be revealed; ⁶ For 'he will give to every man what his actions deserve.'

¹² All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law. ¹³ It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.

¹⁹ Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgment of God. ²⁰ For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

¹³ Even before the time of the Law there was sin in the world; but sin cannot be charged against a man where no Law exists.

²⁰ Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more, ²¹ In order than, just as Sin had reigned in the realm of Death, so, too, might Loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in Immortal Life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

⁷ What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet. ⁸ But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life. ⁹ There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died! ¹⁰ The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death! ¹¹ Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death. ¹² And so the Law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve Death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved Death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my Death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the Commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is. ¹⁴ We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly-sold into slavery to Sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate. ¹⁶ But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right. ¹⁷ This being so, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me. ¹⁸ I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy. ¹⁹ I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do. ²⁰ But, when I do the very thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me. ²¹ This, then, is the law that I find-When I want to do right, wrong presents itself! ²² At heart I delight in the Law of God; ²³ But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body. ²⁴ Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death? ²⁵ Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of Sin.

⁵⁶ It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.

⁷ If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory, ⁸ Will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory? ⁹ For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness! ¹⁰ All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'

¹⁹ What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that 'offspring' to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.

⁶ Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

⁶ These are the things on account of which the Wrath of God comes,

⁴ Every one who lives sinfully is living in violation of Law. Sin is violation of Law.

¹⁶ and they are crying to the mountains and the rocks-- 'Fall upon us, and hide us from the eyes of him who is seated on the throne, and from the Wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷ for the great Day of their Wrath is come, and who can stand to meet it?'

¹⁵ From his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which 'to smite the nations; and he will rule them with an iron rod.' He 'treads the grapes in the press' of the maddening wine of the Wrath of Almighty God;