Romans 4:15 Cross References

Romans 4:15

15: But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

Romans 5:13

  1. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. And though there was no law to break, since it had not yet been given,

Romans 3:19

  1. Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.
  2. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."

1 Corinthians 15:56

  1. For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power.

Romans 7:7

  1. Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
  2. But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
  3. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
  4. So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
  5. Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

John 3:36

  1. And all who believe in God's Son have eternal life. Those who don't obey the Son will never experience eternal life, but the wrath of God remains upon them."

1 John 3:4

  1. Those who sin are opposed to the law of God, for all sin opposes the law of God.

Romans 5:20

  1. God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful kindness became more abundant.
  2. So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God's wonderful kindness rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 15:22

  1. They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Ephesians 5:6

  1. Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the terrible anger of God comes upon all those who disobey him.

Zephaniah 1:18

  1. Your silver and gold will be of no use to you on that day of the LORD's anger. For the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. He will make a terrifying end of all the people on earth.

2 Corinthians 3:7

  1. That old system of law etched in stone led to death, yet it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses' face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away.
  2. Shouldn't we expect far greater glory when the Holy Spirit is giving life?
  3. If the old covenant, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new covenant, which makes us right with God!

Romans 2:5

  1. But no, you won't listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world,
  2. will judge all people according to what they have done.

Jeremiah 4:8

  1. So put on clothes of mourning and weep with broken hearts, for the fierce anger of the LORD is still upon us.

Romans 2:12

  1. God will punish the Gentiles when they sin, even though they never had God's written law. And he will punish the Jews when they sin, for they do have the law.
  2. For it is not merely knowing the law that brings God's approval. Those who obey the law will be declared right in God's sight.

Acts 17:30

  1. God overlooked people's former ignorance about these things, but now he commands everyone everywhere to turn away from idols and turn to him.
  2. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead."

Galatians 3:19

  1. Well then, why was the law given? It was given to show people how guilty they are. But this system of law was to last only until the coming of the child to whom God's promise was made. And there is this further difference. God gave his laws to angels to give to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.

Ezekiel 7:19

  1. "They will throw away their money, tossing it out like worthless trash. It won't buy their deliverance in that day of the LORD's anger. It will neither satisfy nor feed them, for their love of money made them stumble into sin.

Numbers 32:14

  1. But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the LORD even angrier with Israel.

2 Kings 22:13

  1. "Go to the Temple and speak to the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah. Ask him about the words written in this scroll that has been found. The LORD's anger is burning against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words in this scroll. We have not been doing what this scroll says we must do."

Colossians 3:6

  1. God's terrible anger will come upon those who do such things.

Deuteronomy 29:20

  1. The LORD will not pardon such people. His anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.
  2. The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the covenant curses recorded in this Book of the Law.
  3. "Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD will send against it.
  4. They will find its soil turned into sulfur and salt, with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It will be just like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his anger.
  5. The surrounding nations will ask, `Why has the LORD done this to his land? Why was he so angry?'

Romans 1:17

  1. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."

Lamentations 2:22

  1. "You have invited terrors from all around as though you were calling them to a day of feasting. In the day of the LORD's anger, no one has escaped or survived. The enemy has killed all the children I bore and raised."

Revelation 6:16

  1. And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.
  2. For the great day of their wrath has come, and who will be able to survive?"

Revelation 19:15

  1. From his mouth came a sharp sword, and with it he struck down the nations. He ruled them with an iron rod, and he trod the winepress of the fierce wrath of almighty God.
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