Misinterpretations often portray the law as inherently evil or the cause of sin rather than its revealer, leading to antinomianism where believers wrongly assume freedom from all moral constraints; others twist it to dismiss the law's ongoing role in instructing righteousness for Christians, ignoring that faith upholds the law's righteous demands while transcending its condemning power.
Romans 4:15
King James Version (1769)
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
This verse underscores that the Mosaic law functions to expose sin as transgression and thus provokes God's wrath against it, highlighting humanity's guilt; conversely, without law there is no formal transgression, which supports Paul's argument that righteousness cannot be achieved through law observance but must come by faith, as exemplified in Abraham's justification apart from works of the law.