Romans 5:13 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

English ASV

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

English Amplified

[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's account where there is no law [to transgress].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's account where there is no law [to transgress].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

(for until law sin was in [the] world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

English EASY 2024

Before God gave his Law to Moses, people did wrong things. Sin was already there in the world. But at that time, God did not say that people were guilty, because there was no law for them to obey.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Sin was in the world before the Law of Moses. But God does not consider people guilty of sin if there is no law.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

There was sin in the world before the Law was given; but where there is no law, no account is kept of sins.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Sin was in the world before there were any laws. But no record of sin can be kept when there are no laws.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not counted when there is no law.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world, though sin is not accounted when there is no law.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not judged when there is no law.

English NIV

for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. And though there was no law to break, since it had not yet been given,

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Sin was in the world before Moses gave the written law, but it was not charged against them where no law existed.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

We know that it was Adam's sin that caused this because although, of course, people were sinning from the time of Adam until Moses, God did not in those days judge them guilty of death for breaking his laws—because he had not yet given his laws to them nor told them what he wanted them to do.

English Tyndale 1537

For even unto the time of the law was sin in the world: but sin was not regarded, as long as there was no law:

Romans 5:13 — Compare Translations