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The Book of Romans, Chapter 4, Verse 15

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For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
King James Version
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
American Standard Version
for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
New English Translation
And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
World English Bible
For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
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Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
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(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
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And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
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He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
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And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
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Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
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But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
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Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.