Romans 5:13

NET Bible® (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.

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  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
  • 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 practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 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.
  • Gen 4:7-9 : 7 Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue 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?” And he replied,“I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?” 10 But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! 11 So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
  • Gen 6:5-6 : 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.
  • Gen 6:11 : 11 The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.
  • Gen 8:21 : 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.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 (Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)
  • Gen 18:20 : 20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
  • Gen 19:4 : 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.
  • Gen 19:32 : 32 Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can go to bed with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
  • Gen 19:36 : 36 In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
  • Gen 38:7 : 7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD killed him.
  • Gen 38:10 : 10 What he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD killed him too.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 5:14-16
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    14Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam(who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

    15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

    16And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

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

  • Rom 5:12
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    12The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–

  • Rom 3:20-21
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    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed–

  • Rom 7:5-11
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

    10and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

    11For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Rom 5:18-21
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    18Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

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

    20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

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

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

  • Rom 4:8
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    8blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

  • Rom 7:13-14
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    13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

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

    5And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

  • 1 John 5:17
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    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

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

  • Rom 8:1-3
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    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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

    3For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

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

    6So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Rom 3:9-10
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    9The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

    10just as it is written:“There is no one righteous, not even one,

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • Rom 7:17
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    17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

  • Ps 32:2
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    2How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

  • Rom 6:23
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    23For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 5:6
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    6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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