Verse 13

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.