Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

(For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law.

New American Standard Bible

for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

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].

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

ἄχρι ἄχρις 
Achri 
until, unto, till, till 9 , until 9, while 9, even to,
Usage: 43

the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143
Usage: 143

was
ἦν 
En 
was, were, had been, had, taught , stood , , vr was
Usage: 410

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the world
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

but
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

is
ἐλλογέω 
Ellogeo 
Usage: 2

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἐλλογέω 
Ellogeo 
Usage: 2

when there is
ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

no
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Romans 5:13

Images Romans 5:13

Prayers for Romans 5:13

Context Readings

Death Came Through Adam But Life Comes Through Christ

12 Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law. 14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses, and upon them not having sinned upon the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him about to be.

Cross References

Romans 4:15

For the law works wrath: for where is no law, no transgression.

1 Corinthians 15:56

And the sting of death sin; and the power of sin the law.

Genesis 4:7-11

If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Genesis 6:5-6

And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days.

Genesis 6:11

And the earth shall be corrupted to the face of God; and the earth shall be filled with violence.

Genesis 8:21

And Jehovah smelled a smell of sweetness; and Jehovah will say in his heart, I will not gather to curse the earth yet again on account of man; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: and I will not gather yet again to smite every living thing according to which I did.

Genesis 13:13

And the men of Sodom were evil and sinful before Jehovah exceedingly.

Genesis 18:20

And Jehovah will say, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah became great, and because their sin was exceedingly heavy,

Genesis 19:4

Before the men of the city shall lie down, the men of Sodom surrounded the house about, from youth, even to old age, all the people from the end.

Genesis 19:32

Come, we will give to our father wine to drink, and we will lie down with him, and we shall preserve alive seed from our father.

Genesis 19:36

And the two daughters of Lot will conceive by their father.

Genesis 38:7

And Er, Judah's first-born, will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah: and Jehovah will kill him.

Genesis 38:10

And it will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah, what he did, and he will kill him also

1 John 3:4

Every one doing sin also does lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.

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