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Selected Verse: Romans 5:13 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ro 5:13 |
King James |
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For until the law sin was in the world--that is during all the period from Adam "until the law" of Moses was given, God continued to treat men as sinners.
but sin is not imputed where there is no law--"There must therefore have been a law during that period, because sin was then imputed"; as is now to be shown. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Until the law
In the period between Adam and Moses.
Is not imputed (οὐκ ἐλλογεῖται)
Put to account so as to bring penalty. From λόγος an account or reckoning. Only here and Plm 1:18.
Figure (τύπος)
See on Pe1 5:3. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
For until the law sin was in the world - All, I say, had sinned, for sin was in the world long before the written law; but, I grant, sin is not so much imputed, nor so severely punished by God, where there is no express law to convince men of it. Yet that all had sinned, even then, appears in that all died. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
For until the law sin was in the world - As death reigned from Adam to Moses, so also did sin. Now, as there was no written law from Adam to that given to Moses, the death that prevailed could not be the breach of that law; for sin, so as to be punished with temporal death, is not imputed where there is no law, which shows the penalty of sin to be death. Therefore, men are not subjected to death for their own personal transgressions, but for the sin of Adam; as, through his transgression, all come into the world with the seeds of death and corruption in their own nature, superadded to their moral depravity. All are sinful - all are mortal - and all must die. |
3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;