Romans 5:13

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For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

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  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.
  • 1 Cor 15:56 : 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
  • 1 John 3:4 : 4 Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • Gen 4:7-9 : 7 'If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.' 8 Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let’s go out to the field.' While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' He replied, 'I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?' 10 The LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.' 11 'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.'
  • Gen 6:5-6 : 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of humanity had become on the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually. 6 The Lord regretted that He had made humanity on the earth, and it deeply grieved Him.
  • Gen 6:11 : 11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. Nor will I ever again destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and great sinners against the LORD.
  • Gen 18:20 : 20 Then the LORD said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave.
  • Gen 19:4 : 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
  • Gen 19:32 : 32 "Come, let us get our father to drink wine and sleep with him so that we can preserve our family line through our father."
  • Gen 19:36 : 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
  • Gen 38:7 : 7 But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD put him to death.
  • Gen 38:10 : 10 What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight, so the LORD put him to death also.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 5:14-16
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    14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the One who was to come.

    15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died because of the trespass of one man, how much more has the grace of God and the gift that comes by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflowed to many.

    16 And the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin. For judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Rom 5:12
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    12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people, because all sinned.

  • Rom 3:20-21
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    20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, testified to by the Law and the Prophets.

  • Rom 7:5-11
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8 But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

    9 At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

    10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

    11 For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    76%

    12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified.

    14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

  • Rom 5:18-21
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    18 So then, just as through one trespass condemnation came to all people, so also through one act of righteousness justification that brings life came to all people.

    19 For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man the many will be made righteous.

    20 Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more.

    21 So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

    15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

  • Rom 4:8
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    8 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count sin.

  • Rom 7:13-14
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    13 Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.

    14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

  • 1 John 3:4-5
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    4 Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

    5 You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

  • 1 John 5:17
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    17 All wrongdoing is sin, and yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

  • Rom 8:1-3
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    1 So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

    3 For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.

  • 1 Tim 1:9
    72%

    9 We also know that the law is not made for the righteous but for the lawless and rebellious, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane, those who strike their fathers and mothers, and murderers,

  • Gal 3:21
    71%

    21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • Rom 4:5-6
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    5 But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

    6 Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Rom 3:9-10
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    9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

    10 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one."

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    70%

    11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

    12 The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'

  • Gal 5:18
    70%

    18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
    69%

    21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Rom 7:17
    69%

    17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

  • Gal 2:17
    69%

    17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Ps 32:2
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    2 Blessed is the person whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7 For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Rom 6:23
    68%

    23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 5:6
    68%

    6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.