Romans 5:13

For until the law, sin, while it was in the world, was not reckoned sin, because the law was not;

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

12As by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death, so death hath passed upon all men through this, that all have sinned.

14yet death reigned from Adam until Musha on them also who had not sinned after the manner of the transgression of the law of Adam, who was the type of him who was to be.

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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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