Romanos 5:13

13 pois antes de ser dada a Lei, o pecado já estava no mundo. Mas o pecado não é levado em conta quando não existe lei.

Romanos 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 5:13

For until the law, sin was in the world
This is a proof of sin's having entered into the world, by one man's transgression of the positive law of God, which forbid him the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; since it was in the world before the law of Moses was given: the sin of Adam and the guilt of that were in the world before, and came upon all men to condemnation; the general corruption of nature appeared before; and actual sins, and transgressions of all sorts were committed before; as by the immediate posterity of Adam, by the men of the old world, by the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, by the patriarchs and their posterity, by the Egyptians, Canaanites, and others. They were all guilty of sin, corrupted by it, and under the dominion of it, except such as were released from it by the grace of God: now when sin is said to be until this time, the meaning is not that it existed and continued until the law of Moses took place, and then ceased; for that law did not, and could not take away sin, it rather increased it, at least it became more known by it; but that it was in being before it, and had influence and power over the sons of men, so as to subject them to death:

but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
This looks like an objection, that if there was no law before Moses's time, then there was no sin, nor could any action of man be known or accounted by them as sinful, or be imputed to them to condemnation; or rather it is a concession, allowing that where there is no law, sin is not imputed; but there was a law before that law of Moses, which law was transgressed, and the sin or transgression of it was imputed to men to condemnation and death, as appears from what follows.

Romanos 5:13 In-Context

11 Não apenas isso, mas também nos gloriamos em Deus, por meio de nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo, mediante quem recebemos agora a reconciliação.

12 Portanto, da mesma forma como o pecado entrou no mundo por um homem, e pelo pecado a morte, assim também a morte veio a todos os homens, porque todos pecaram;

13 pois antes de ser dada a Lei, o pecado já estava no mundo. Mas o pecado não é levado em conta quando não existe lei.

14 Todavia, a morte reinou desde o tempo de Adão até o de Moisés, mesmo sobre aqueles que não cometeram pecado semelhante à transgressão de Adão, o qual era um tipo daquele que haveria de vir.

15 Entretanto, não há comparação entre a dádiva e a transgressão. De fato, muitos morreram por causa da transgressão de um só homem, mas a graça de Deus, isto é, a dádiva pela graça de um só, Jesus Cristo, transbordou ainda mais para muitos.