Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Because the law worketh wrath--has nothing to give to those who break is but condemnation and vengeance.
for where there is no law, there is no transgression--It is just the law that makes transgression, in the case of those who break it; nor can the one exist without the other.
For the promise, etc.--This is merely an enlargement of the foregoing reasoning, applying to the law what had just been said of circumcision.
that he should be the heir of the world--or, that "all the families of the earth should be blessed in him."
was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law--in virtue of obedience to the law.
but through the righteousness of faith--in virtue of his simple faith in the divine promises.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Romans 3:20
1 Corinthians 15:56
Galatians 3:19
Ephesians 2:15
1 Timothy 2:14
Hebrews 8:9
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