Romans 5:13,20 - Compare All Versions

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To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.

The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more

for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more

Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break.

God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant.

In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.

The law came along to multiply the trespass.  But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

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

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound

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

Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more

You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we’re in—first sin, then death, and no one exempt from either sin or death. That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses. Even those who didn’t sin precisely as Adam did by disobeying a specific command of God still had to experience this termination of life, this separation from God. But Adam, who got us into this, also points ahead to the One who will get us out of it.

All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.

for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not counted against anyone when there is no law.

The Law came in so that the offense would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more

Sin was [committed] in the world before the Law [was given], but sin is not charged [against anyone] when there is no law [against it].

But the Law came to increase and expand [the awareness of] the trespass [by defining and unmasking sin]. But where sin increased, [God’s remarkable, gracious gift of] grace [His unmerited favor] has surpassed it and increased all the more

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more