Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace,.... Meaning either the promise of being heir of the world, or the inheritance itself, or adoption which gives heirship, or remission of Sin, or the…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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 disobedient. Law necessarily…
St. Paul observes in this paragraph when and why Abraham was thus justified; for he has several things to remark upon that. It was before he was circumcised, and before the giving of the law; and…
Cambridge Bible
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…
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