for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.” Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.
But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,
Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
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