Romans 5:13

for till the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged where there is no law.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

14Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is the type of him that was to come.

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Matthew Henry on Romans 5:7-21

The First and the Second Adam; The Influence of Grace. ( a. d. 58.) 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the… Read the whole commentary →

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