Romans 5:13
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
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- Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- 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 sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
- 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
- Gen 4:7-9 : 7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. 9 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?" 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Gen 6:5-6 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Gen 6:11 : 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Gen 18:20 : 20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
- Gen 19:4 : 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Gen 19:32 : 32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
- Gen 19:36 : 36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.
- Gen 38:7 : 7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
- Gen 38:10 : 10 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.
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- Rom 5:14-163 verses80%
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
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15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
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12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- Rom 3:20-212 verses78%
20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
- Rom 7:5-117 verses77%
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
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12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
- Rom 5:18-214 verses75%
18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
21 that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
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8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
- Rom 7:13-142 verses73%
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
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17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
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56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Rom 8:1-33 verses72%
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
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9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
- Rom 4:5-62 verses71%
5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
- Rom 3:9-102 verses71%
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
- Gal 3:11-122 verses70%
11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."
12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
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18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
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2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, In whose spirit there is no deceit.
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7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.