Romans 5:13

sin indeed was in the world all the time before the law: but then sin is not punished when there is no law.

Romans 4:15

because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

1 Corinthians 15:56

the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.

1 John 3:4

he that is vitious, is lawless: for sin is the transgression of the law.

1 John 3:14

as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state.

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Summary

(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

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But sin

Romans 4:15
because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.
1 Corinthians 15:56
the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.
1 John 3:4
he that is vitious, is lawless: for sin is the transgression of the law.