Romans 5:13
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
KJV
ἄχρι γὰρ νόμου ἁμαρτία ἦν ἐν κόσμῳ, ἁμαρτία δὲ οὐκ ἐλλογεῖται μὴ ὄντος νόμου·
Greek NT
Usque ad legem enim peccatum erat in mundo : peccatum autem non imputabatur, cum lex non esset.
Vulgate
for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
ASV
For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἄχρι
achri
adverb · 49×
ἐλλογέω
ellogeo
verb · 2×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§388With the progress of Revelation, the reality of sin is also illuminated. Although to some extent the People of God in the Old Testament had tried to understand the pathos of the human condition in the light of the history of the fall narrated in Genesis, they could not grasp this story's ultimate meaning, which is revealed only in the light of the death and Resurrection of Jesu…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210210.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
§37When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam repr…
1 And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the preceding section, my revered brother Ambrosius, brother formed according to the Gospel, we have discussed, as far as is at present in our power, what the Gospel is, and what is the beginning in which the Word was, and what the Word is which was in the beginning. We now come to consider the next point in the work before …
We believe that by the disobedience of Adam original sin has been spread through the whole human race. It is a corruption of the whole human nature—an inherited depravity which even infects small infants in their mother's womb, and the root which produces in humanity every sort of sin. It is therefore so vile and enormous in God's sight that it is enough to condemn the human ra…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:56 — The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
- 1John 3:4 — Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
- Gen 4:7 — 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.
- Gen 38:7 — And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
- Gen 38:10 — And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
- John 10:10 — The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
- Rom 3:20 — Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
- Rom 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
- Rom 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.