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Romans 5:13

Romans 5:13 is verse 13 of Romans chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

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Romans 5:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

13 For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 4:7

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

Genesis 4:8

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4:9

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Genesis 4:10

“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:11

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 6:5

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Genesis 6:6

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:11

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

Genesis 8:21

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

Genesis 19:4

Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.

Genesis 19:32

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

Genesis 19:36

Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

Genesis 38:7

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.

Genesis 38:10

What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.

Romans 4:15

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

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

1 John 3:4

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

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