What is true where there is no law?...

There is no violation of the law.

There was no written law of God at the time that Abraham received righteousness on the basis of his faith in the promise of God. The Ten Commandments were given several hundred years later.

In his writings, Paul makes it clear that God does not judge people in terms of light they have not seen.

Manmade laws may obligate people who are ignorant of them, but it is not so with the Law of God.

The Law of God is light. When that light comes it reveals sin. When sin has been exposed, Divine judgment must be exercised.

Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is the Law of God, because God had not clothed them as yet. They became conscious of sin before Divine preparation had been made for their garments of righteousness, so to speak.

The Ten Commandments were given in God’s time. The moment the commandments came, sin was revealed and mankind became guilty and died spiritually.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died (Romans 7:9). The garments of righteousness with which to clothe our nakedness are given to us through the Lord Jesus Christ and His atoning death.

Where there is no Law there is no transgression, no spiritual nakedness. The moment the Law comes our sinful condition is illuminated. We see, then, that Divine wrath, not salvation or inheritance, comes to us through the Law of God.

The Law brings death but Christ brings eternal, incorruptible life.