Romans 5:13
Sin was indeed in the world before the Law, but sin is never counted in the absence of law.
Romans 4:15
(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)
1 John 3:4
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,
1 John 3:14
We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.
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(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
But sin
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But sin
Romans 4:15
(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)
1 John 3:4
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,