Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not 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.

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;

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 because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin; 13 for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law; 14 but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.


Cross References

Romans 4:15

for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

1 Corinthians 15:56

and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

Genesis 4:7-11

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

Genesis 6:5-6

And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

Genesis 6:11

And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.

Genesis 8:21

and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, 'I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

Genesis 13:13

and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

Genesis 18:20

And Jehovah saith, 'The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah -- because great; and their sin -- because exceeding grievous:

Genesis 19:4

Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

Genesis 19:32

come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father -- a seed.'

Genesis 19:36

And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,

Genesis 38:7

and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

Genesis 38:10

and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

1 John 3:4

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

1 John 3:14

we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

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