ἄχρι γὰρ νόμου ἁμαρτία ἦν ἐν κόσμῳ, ἁμαρτία δὲ οὐκ ἐλλογεῖται μὴ ὄντος νόμου,

akhri gar nomou amartia en en kosmo, amartia de ouk ellogeitai me ontos nomou,

usque ad legem enim peccatum erat in mundo peccatum autem non inputatur cum lex non est

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For until The Written Law, sin was in the universe, but it was not accounted as sin, because there was no written law.

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

For until the law sin was in the world; but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when 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.

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

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.

Certainly sin was in the world before the Law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no Law.

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

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

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.

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.

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

For prior to the Law sin was already in the world; only it is not entered in the account against us when no Law exists.

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

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.

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

Sin was in the world before the Law was given. But sin is not held against a person when there is no Law.

For until the time of the Law, sin was in the world. But sin was not taken into account while there was no Law.

Before God gave the law, sin existed, but there was no way to account for it. Outside the law, how could anyone be charged and found guilty of sin?

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.

Sin was already in the world before there was any Law, even though sin is not reckoned when there is no Law.

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

For until the law, sin was in the world; but the sin was not imputed, there being no law.

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.

[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].

Sin was in the world before the law of Moses, but sin is not counted against us as breaking a command when there is no law.

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.

For even before the law was given, sin was in the world. Now, sin is not charged to one’s account if there is no law,

For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged when there is no law.

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

For even to the time of the law, sin was in the world. But where no law is, there sin is not regarded.

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

For unto the law [Soothly till to the law] sin was in the world; but sin was not reckoned, when [the] law was not.

Sin was in the world, you see, even in the absence of the law, though sin is not calculated where there is no law.

Sin was in the world before the Law came. But no record of sin was kept, because there was no Law.

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

Sin, you see, was in the world long before the Law, though I suppose, technically speaking, it was not “sin” where there was no law to define it. Nevertheless death, the complement of sin, held sway over mankind from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sin was quite unlike Adam’s. Adam, the first man, corresponds in some degree to the man who has to come.

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

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

Although sin was in the world, since there was no Law, it wasn’t taken into account until the Law came.

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].

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

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

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

Sin was in the world before ·the law of Moses [L the law], but sin is not ·counted against us as breaking a command [charged to one’s account; recorded as sin] when there is no law [4:15].

For up until the Torah, sin was in the world; but sin does not count as sin when there is no law.

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

Before the law was given, sin was in the world. This is certainly true. But people are not judged for sin when there is no law.

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

Sin was indeed present in the world before Torah was given, but sin is not counted as such when there is no Torah.

People in the world were not right with God before he gave the law. But wrong things are not punished when there is no law.

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

For before (the epoch of) the Torah (Law), Chet (Sin, Chet Kadmon, original sin) was in HaOlam (HaZeh, the world). But Chet (Sin) is not accounted, recorded [to make charges for death penalties] in the absence of Torah [i.e., no Law, no violation, death penalty].

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

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

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

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

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one’s account when there is no law.

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.

for until the Law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged-to-the-account, there being no law.