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Romans 5:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. "
Romans 5:13
Verse in Context
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11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
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Romans 5:1
"Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;"
Romans 5:2
"through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
Romans 5:3
"Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;"
Romans 5:4
"and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;"
Romans 5:5
"and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
Romans 5:6
"For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly."
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