Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
For even before the law of Moses, sin was [being committed] in the world. But man is not responsible for [his] sin when there is no law.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Holman Bible
In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.
International Standard Version
Certainly sin was in the world before the Law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no Law.
A Conservative Version
For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
American Standard Version
for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Amplified
Sin was [committed] in the world before the Law [was given], but sin is not charged [against anyone] when there is no law [against it].
Anderson New Testament
for till the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged where there is no law.
Bible in Basic English
Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.
Common New Testament
(For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted when there is no law.
Daniel Mace New Testament
sin indeed was in the world all the time before the law: but then sin is not punished when there is no law.
Darby Translation
(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;
Godbey New Testament
(for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed, there being no law;
Goodspeed New Testament
It is true sin was in the world before the Law was given, and men are not charged with sin where there is no law.
John Wesley New Testament
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed, where there is no law.
Julia Smith Translation
(For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law.
King James 2000
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account [when there] is no law.
Modern King James verseion
for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For even unto the time of the law was sin in the world: but sin was not regarded, as long as there was no law:
Moffatt New Testament
Sin was indeed in the world before the Law, but sin is never counted in the absence of law.
Montgomery New Testament
For prior to the Law, sin actually existed in the world, but sin was not set down to man's account when there was no law.
NET Bible
for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.
New Heart English Bible
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
Noyes New Testament
(for all the time before the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not set to ones account when there is no law.
The Emphasized Bible
For, until law, sin was in the world, although sin is not reckoned when there is no law, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed if there be no law.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Even before the time of the Law there was sin in the world; but sin cannot be charged against a man where no Law exists.
Webster
For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Weymouth New Testament
For prior to the Law sin was already in the world; only it is not entered in the account against us when no Law exists.
Williams New Testament
Certainly sin was in the world before the law was given, but it is not charged to men's account where there is no law.
World English Bible
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
Worrell New Testament
for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned, when there is no law:
Worsley New Testament
for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;
Youngs Literal Translation
for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;
Themes
death » How death entered into the world
Judgment » How judgment came upon all men
Justification » Justification coming by jesus Christ
Law » What occurs when there is no law
Man » Involved posterity in his ruin
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » death
Interlinear
Hamartia
ἁμαρτία
Hamartia
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Devotionals
Devotionals containing Romans 5:13
References
American
Easton
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Morish
Word Count of 36 Translations in Romans 5:13
Prayers for Romans 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Death Came Through Adam But Life Comes Through Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through [the action of] one man [i.e., Adam] and [physical] death through that sin, so [physical] death has spread to all people, because all people have sinned. [Note: This difficult passage (verses 12-21) seems to be saying that the entire human race must experience physical death because of Adam's sin (I Cor. 5:22), which is somehow considered to be everyone's sin. See Murray, pp. 180-187, for a thorough discussion]. 13 For even before the law of Moses, sin was [being committed] in the world. But man is not responsible for [his] sin when there is no law. 14 Yet [physical] death ruled [over mankind] from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those people who had not sinned the way Adam did. [Now] Adam prefigured the coming of Jesus.
Cross References
Romans 4:15
For the law brings [God's] wrath [i.e., because of man's failure to obey it perfectly], but where there is no law, there is no [responsibility for] sin.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The [harmful] sting that causes [physical] death is sin [See Rom. 5:12]; and the power of sin [to do this] comes from the law. [See Rom. 8:2].
1 John 3:4
Every person who practices a life of sin is also breaking [God's] law, for sin is law-breaking.
1 John 3:14
[For] we [can] know that we have passed out of [the realm of spiritual] death and into [spiritual] life, because we [show] love for the brothers [and sisters]. The person who does not love [them] continues to be [spiritually] dead.