Verse 13

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 pleasant aroma. 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.