“ Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. ”
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 peac...
(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...
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 , Romans 4:12 . According to Genesis 17 the pa...
worketh . See Romans 1:27 . for . The texts read "but". no . not. App-105. no . neither. Greek. oude. transgression . See Romans 2:23 .
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...
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Because the law worketh wrath - For law νομος, any law, or rule of duty. No law makes provision for the exercise of me...
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 rendere...
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...
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. I...
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 through...
Chapter 11 ABRAHAM (2) Romans 4:13-25 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 alt...
This Blessedness Is for All Romans 4:9-15 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 be...
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 wh...
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,...
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...
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...
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 n...
The Case of Abraham. A. D. 58. 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only,...
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...
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 gi...
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...
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...
Romans 4:1-3 . 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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION Romans 4:1-45 (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 th...
The promise is not by the Law:
1 Corinthians 15:56 ; 1 John 3:4 ; 2 Corinthians 3:7-9 ; 2 Kings 22:13 ; Acts 17:30 ; Acts 17:31 ; Colossians 3:6 ; Deuteronomy 29:20-28 ; Ephesians 5:6 ; Ezekiel 7:19 ; Galatians 3:10 ;...
Abraham an Exemplar of Faith Romans 4:1-5 , Romans 4:13-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our verses there are several things relative to the faith of Abraham that are worthy of note: 1. What di...
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...