Romans 5:13

New English Translation

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)

Genesis 18:20

So the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

Genesis 19:32

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

Genesis 19:36

In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

Genesis 19:4

Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house.

Genesis 38:10

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him too.

Genesis 38:7

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him.

Genesis 6:11

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Romans 3:20

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

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 crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

1 John 3:4

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.