For the law worketh wrath, not of itself, nor by the intention of the lawgiver, but in as much as it is the occasion of greater punishments, when persons transgress it knowingly. (Witham) --- The law abstracting from faith and grace, worketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many transgressions, which provoke God's wrath. (Challoner)
ROMANS 4:15 de, {B} As far as external evidence is concerned, the reading ou- de, appears to be rather decisively supported (a* A B C 81 _al_). On the other hand, if ou- ga,r were original, one could...
Verse Romans 4:15. _BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH_] For law νομος, any law, or rule of duty. No law makes provision for the exercise of mercy, for it worketh wrath, οργην, punishment, for the disobed...
BECAUSE THE LAW - All law. It is the tendency of law. WORKETH WRATH - Produces or causes wrath. While man is fallen, and a sinner, its tendency, so far from justifying him, and producing peace, is jus...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The Witness of Abraham to Justification. (Romans 4:1 .)_ 2. As Confirmed also by David. (Romans 4:6 .) 3. Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant. (Romans 4:9 .) 4. Faith in Him Who Ra...
ROMANS 4:11 _B -_ ROMANS 4:17_ A._ ABRAHAM'S RELATION TO MANKIND. With Abraham's faith a great prospect opened for humanity. Romans 4:11_ b_,...
THE FAITH WHICH TAKES GOD AT HIS WORD (Romans 4:1-8)...
It was not through law that there came to Abraham or to his seed the promise that he would inherit the earth, but it came through that right relationship with God which has its origin in faith. If the...
WORKETH. See Romans 1:27. FOR. The texts read "but". NO. not. App-105. NO. neither. Greek. _oude._ TRANSGRESSION. See Romans 2:23....
_the law worketh wrath: for_ "For" indicates that this statement confirms that just made, namely, that inheritance by law must bar the fulfilment of the promise. "The faith" in question was said to be...
Ὁ ΓᾺΡ ΝΌΜΟΣ … ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΕΤΑΙ. This verse indicates the true function of law, to show that it can have no effect upon the promise; it neither makes nor unmakes the kinship with Abraham, which is a kinshi...
The relation of law to promise is very briefly treated, just to meet the possible objection that the law is a condition of inheriting the promise, even though it was not an original condition of the p...
ΌΡΓΉ (G3709) гнев (_см._ Romans 1:18). ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G2716) работать, производить, ΟΎ (G3756) где. ΠΑΡΆΒΑΣΙΣ (G3847) преступление, выход за рамки....
WHERE NO LAW IS, &C.— "Of that concerning which there is no law, with the sanction of a punishment annexed, there can be no transgression, incurring wrath or punishment." Thus it may be rendered, if w...
_TEXT_ Romans 4:13-22. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 4:14 For if they that are o...
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH - has nothing to give to those who break it but condemnation and vengeance: FOR WHERE...
_JUSTIFICATION-INDIVIDUAL_ 13 As further developed in Galatians, the law was not given till hundreds of years after Abraham was counted righteous. The promises he received in connection with it were...
4:15 law (b-2) Or 'For the law.'...
Cp. Romans 3:20. FOR WHERE] RV 'but where.'...
ACCEPTANCE BY FAITH FORESHADOWED IN THE OLD DISPENSATION In Romans 3:21.; St. Paul set forth the great truth of acceptance by faith. A Jew might object that it was new, and therefore not true. In Roma...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 ABRAHAM’S *FAITH 4:1-8 V1 We shall talk about our *ancestor Abraham. He discovered how to be *righteous. V2 But he d...
(14-17) This Messianic kingdom cannot have anything to do with law; for if it had, faith and the promise would cease to have any office. Faith and law cannot co-exist. They are the opposites of each o...
But in reality the Law is unable to admit them to this. It has an entirely contrary function — namely, to call down punishment upon the offences that it reveals. The Law and faith, therefore, mutually...
IV. (1-25) The subject of the chapter is an application of the foregoing to the special (and crucial) case of Abraham, with particular reference to two ideas that are continually recurring throughout...
CHAPTER 11 ABRAHAM (2) Romans 4:13 AGAIN we approach the name of Abraham, Friend of God, Father of the Faithful. We have seen him justified by faith, personally accepted because turning altogether t...
The argument of Romans 4:9-12 is reiterated and confirmed here in other terms. Abraham is the father of all believers: for it is not through law that the promise is given to him or his seed, that he s...
ὀργήν : wrath, _i.e._, the wrath of God. See on Romans 1:18. Under a legal dispensation sin is stimulated, and brought into clear consciousness: men come under the wrath of God, and know that they do....
THIS BLESSEDNESS IS FOR ALL Romans 4:9 In Abraham's case it is clear that he was justified when he was still a Gentile. The initial badge of Judaism was stamped upon him long after he had believed Go...
The apostle now dealt with another difficulty that might arise in the mind of the Jew, showing that the method of grace, namely, imputing righteousness in response to faith, is in harmony with the who...
(13) Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression. (13) A reason of the first confirmation, why the promise cannot be apprehended by the law: because the law does n...
“ _For the law worketh wrath: and, indeed_, _where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not...
TENTH PASSAGE (4:1-25). FAITH THE PRINCIPLE OF ABRAHAM'S JUSTIFICATION. Abraham being for the Jews the embodiment of salvation, his case was of capital moment in the solution of the question here tre...
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. (14) For if they which are of the law be heirs, f...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
15._For the law causeth wrath, etc. _This is a confirmation of the last verse, derived from the contrary effect of the law; for as the law generates nothing but vengeance, it cannot bring grace. It ca...
In dealing with the Jew, and even in dealing with the question of righteousness, there was, besides the law, another consideration of great weight both with the Jews themselves and in the dealings of...
BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH,.... Not the wrath of man, though that is sometimes stirred up through the prohibitions of the law, to which the carnal mind of man is enmity, but the wrath of God the la...
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, _there is_ no transgression. Ver. 15. _No transgression_] _sc._ Is imputed by men where there is no law written. See Romans 5:13 . _ The law worke...
BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; that is, this is its effect upon fallen sinful men. It lays God's authority upon their consciences, without furnishing the grace needful to enable them to overcome their...
BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; FOR WHERE NO LAW IS, THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION....
The promise is not by the Law:...
ABRAHAM AND DAVID JUSTIFIED BY FAITH Now there is deepest patience and grace shown on the part of God through Paul, His instrument in writing this epistle: for it is blessed to see that He gives no m...
ROMANS 4:1-25 1. How was Abraham justified? 2. Could he have been justified by works? a. Why or why not? b. Faith excludes boasting 3:27 c. If saved by works, Abraham could glory 3. How did it h...
__ Romans 4:15 for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression. 'law worketh wrath' -when Paul mentions "law" it appears that he is speaking of. "legal arrangemen...
13-22 The promise was made to Abraham long before the law. It points at Christ, and it refers to the promise, Genesis 12:3. In Thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. The law worketh wrath,...
THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; i.e. the wrath of God: and this it doth not of itself, but occasionally, in respect of our disobedience. This is a confirmation of what was said in the foregoing verse, that the...
for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression. [Abraham had, by reason of his human nature, to be justified by his faith. If justification had to be earned, and...
Romans 4:15 because G1063 law G3551 brings G2716 (G5736) wrath G3709 for G1063 where G3757 is G2076 ...
WHAT PAUL HAS JUST DESCRIBED IS NOW SEEN TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH IDEAS RELATED TO ABRAHAM AND DAVID (4:1-25). No one was of more importance to the Jews than Abraham. It was to him that God had given...
3). ABRAHAM ILLUSTRATES THE FACT THAT GOD'S GREATEST GIFTS DO NOT COME TO US BECAUSE WE ‘OBEY THE LAW', BUT BECAUSE WE ‘BELIEVE IN THE LORD' (4:13-25). The importance of faith in the life of Abraham i...
‘For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect. For the law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.' The promise...
Romans 4:15. FOR. The statement that faith and the promise would be ignored, if the inheritance is through the law, must be true, _for_ this reason. THE LAW, the Mosaic law, as in the entire discuss...
2. PROOF FROM THE CASE OF ABRAHAM, THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BY FAITH. The principle of faith, as the universal one, does not make void the law. In the truest sense it is by this principle that ‘we establ...
WORKETH WRATH (οργην κατεργαζετα). Because of disobedience to it.NEITHER IS THERE TRANSGRESSION (ουδε παραβασις). There is no responsibility for the violation of a non-existent law....
TRANSGRESSION SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 3:31 ; ROMANS 4 A Crucial Case. I. It was by his faith Abraham was justified, not by his works of obedience. Paul's proof of this is very simple. He finds a remarkable proof-text ready to his...
Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?_ What blessings did really come to Abraham, the father of the faithful? What is the nature of that...
Romans 4:1. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith...
Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what sait...
CONTENTS: Abraham justified by faith, not works. Justifying faith defined. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Abraham, David, Sarah. CONCLUSION: No man can pretend to merit eternal life, nor show any worth in...
Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as pertaining_ _to the flesh, hath found?_ How was he a sinner, an idolater, justified? _Was it by the flesh,_ as indicated by the word fa...
_What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?_ LESSONS FROM THE CASE OF ABRAHAM I. However much the most perfect of the species may have to glory of in the...
_For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not … through the law._ THE PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM I. The promise, “that he should be heir of the world,” was made not entirely to Abr...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:15 TRANSGRESSION. The violation of a revealed command. The Jews, who had the written law, had even greater responsibility for their sin. Paul argues elsewhere that sin also exi...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:1 Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, is presented as a test case for the view that justification is by faith alone. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 4:1.—Alford, following Meyer, says κατὰ σάρκα is in contrast to κατὰ πνεῦμα, and refers to that part of our being from which spring works in contrast with that which is the ex...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 4:1 (5) _Abraham himself shown to have been justified by faith, and not by works, believers being his true heirs._ The main points of the argument may be summarized thus: When Abra...
Now what shall we say concerning Abraham the father, as pertaining to the flesh, what did he find? For if Abraham were justified by his works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God (Romans 4:1-...
1 Corinthians 15:56; 1 John 3:4; 2 Corinthians 3:7; 2 Kings 22:13;...
ABRAHAM AN EXEMPLAR OF FAITH Romans 4:1, _Romans 4:13_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our verses there are several things relative to the faith of Abraham that are worthy of note: 1. WHAT DID ABRAHAM FIND A...
Because the law — Considered apart from that grace, which though it was in fact mingled with it, yet is no part of the legal dispensation, is so difficult, and we so weak and sinful, that, instead of...
Here the apostle suggests another reason, why no justification can be executed by the law, because it condemns, rather than justifies. THE LAW WORKETH WRATH: that is, it discovers the wrath of God due...