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13 for before the law was given,[a] sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin[b] when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type[c] of the coming one) transgressed.[d] 15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression.[e] For if the many died through the transgression of the one man,[f] how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 5:13 tn Grk “for before the law.”
  2. Romans 5:13 tn Or “sin is not reckoned.”
  3. Romans 5:14 tn Or “pattern.”
  4. Romans 5:14 tn Or “disobeyed”; Grk “in the likeness of Adam’s transgression.”
  5. Romans 5:15 tn Grk “but not as the transgression, so also [is] the gracious gift.”
  6. Romans 5:15 sn Here the one man refers to Adam (cf. 5:14).