Romans 5:13

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.

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still 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.

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.