13(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. …
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-21)The apostle here describes the fountain and foundation of justification, laid in the death of the Lord Jesus. The streams are very sweet, but, if you run them up to the spring-head, you will find it to be Christ’s dying for us; it is in the precious stream of Christ’s blood that all these privileges come flowing to us: and therefore he enlarges upon this instance of the love of God which is shed a…
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