Romans 5:13

Plain English Version

You see, before God gave Moses the law, it was like this, everybody did wrong things, so they died. They didn’t have the law to show that what they did was wrong, but they all died. So that shows us that they all did wrong things. Yes, all the people from Adam did wrong things, even though they didn’t break a rule, like Adam did. At first Adam came, and Jesus came later. I will talk about them both now.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

The people that lived in Sodom were very bad. They were always going against God, and they did bad things all the time.

Genesis 18:20

So God said, “Abraham, I heard about all the really bad things that people do in those 2 towns down there, called Sodom and Gomorrah. A lot of people are telling me that those people are always doing bad things.

Genesis 19:32

So let’s get our father drunk, and then we can pretend to be his wives, and sleep with him. Then we can have babies, so that we will always have a family.”

Genesis 19:36

So both of Lot’s daughters had babies, and Lot was the father of those babies.

Genesis 19:4

Before they went to bed, all the men that lived in Sodom, both the young men and the old men, they came and stood around Lot’s house,

Genesis 38:10

But God was angry with Onan for doing that bad thing, so God finished up Onan too.

Genesis 38:7

But Judah’s oldest son Er, he did really bad things, and God was angry with him. So God finished up Er, and he died.

Genesis 6:11

Everyone on the earth kept on doing bad things. They were doing wrong to each other, and fighting and hurting each other. God looked down and saw all the bad things that were going on. The people were always doing things that were really bad.

Genesis 8:21

God smelled the meat cooking on that stone table, and he was happy. Then God said to himself, “People always just want to do bad things. They do that all their lives, from when they are little kids, right up until the time they die. But I will never again punish them the same way that I did this time. I will never again finish up everything that breathes air, and I will never again curse the earth. While the earth is still here, the seasons will stay the same. There will always be day and night, and every year there will be a hot time and a cold time, a wet season and a dry season. There will always be a right time to plant seeds for food, and a right time to get the food from those plants.”

Romans 4:15

People try to follow that law, but they can’t do it, and whenever they break that law, God gets angry with them and punishes them. So all the law does is give us trouble. (The only way people will not break the law is if there is no law to break.)