Romans 5:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Romans 5:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1 John 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Genesis 4:7-11
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. …
Genesis 38:7
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

Topics

Depravity of Man Guilt Justification Popular Sins Rebellion Sin

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-14. For until the law sin was in the world--that is during all the period from Adam “until the law” of Moses was given, God continued to treat men as sinners. but sin is not imputed where there is no law--“There must therefore have been a law during that period, because sin was then imputed”; as is now to be shown.