Romans 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

(for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's account where there is no law [to transgress].

American Standard Version (1901)

for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Common English Bible

Although sin was in the world, since there was no Law, it wasn’t taken into account until the Law came.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For even before the law, sin was in the world, but sin was not imputed while the law did not exist.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For until the law sin was in the world; but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

Romans 5:13 Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 18:20

Then the Lord said, “How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!

Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.”

Genesis 19:36

Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

Genesis 19:4

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house,

Genesis 38:10

What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Genesis 38:7

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.

Genesis 6:11

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.

1 John 3:4

Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.