Romans 4:15 (NIV) " because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression." (NLT)   " For the law always brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)" (ESV) "For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression." Three ways to say the same thing: Without law, there would be no sin.  Everything would be acceptable because nothing would be unacceptable. The word "anarchy" comes to my mind when reading this verse.  I looked it up on dictionary.com .  It says (among other things): "confusion; chaos; disorder".  The origin is "lawlessness, lit., lack of a leader, equiv. to ánarch ( os ) leaderless".  Yet another says: "Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose." When God created the universe, He also enacted the laws of the universe.  Like....gravity - we stay on eart...