Romans 5:13
Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.
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- Rom 4:15 : 15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
- 1 Cor 15:56 : 56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
- 1 John 3:4 : 4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
- 1 John 3:14 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
- Gen 4:7-9 : 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master. 8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death. 9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth. 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;
- Gen 6:5-6 : 5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil. 6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
- Gen 6:11 : 11 And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
- Gen 8:21 : 21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
- Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
- Gen 18:20 : 20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
- Gen 19:4 : 4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;
- Gen 19:32 : 32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
- Gen 19:36 : 36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
- Gen 38:7 : 7 Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.
- Gen 38:10 : 10 And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.
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- Rom 5:14-163 verses80%
14 But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
15 But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.
16 And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.
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15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
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12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
- Rom 3:20-212 verses78%
20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
- Rom 7:5-117 verses77%
5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
- Rom 2:12-143 verses76%
12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:
14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;
- Rom 5:18-214 verses75%
18 So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men.
19 Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.
20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
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8 Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.
- Rom 7:13-142 verses73%
13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
- 1 John 3:4-52 verses73%
4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
5 And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.
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17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
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56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
- Rom 8:1-33 verses72%
1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:
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9 With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,
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21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
- Rom 4:5-62 verses71%
5 But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
6 As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
- Rom 3:9-102 verses71%
9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
- Gal 3:11-122 verses70%
11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.
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18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
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17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!
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2 Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
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7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.
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23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
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6 For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
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12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;