Romans 5:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 [a]But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of [b]that one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 [c]Neither is the gift so, as that which entered in by one that sinned: for the fault came of one offense unto condemnation: but the gift is of many offenses to [d]justification.
17 [e]For if by the offense of one, death reigned through one, much more shall they which receive that abundance of grace, and of that gift of that righteousness, [f]reign in life through one, that is, Jesus Christ.
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- Romans 5:15 Adam and Christ are compared together in this respect, that both of them do give and yield to theirs, that which is their own: but herein first they differ, that Adam by nature hath spread his fault to the destruction of many, but Christ’s obedience hath by grace overflowed many.
- Romans 5:15 That is, Adam.
- Romans 5:16 Another inequality consisteth in this, that by Adam’s one offense men are made guilty, but the righteousness of Christ imputed unto us freely, doth not only absolve us from that one fault, but from all others.
- Romans 5:16 To the sentence of absolution, whereby we are quit, and pronounced righteous.
- Romans 5:17 The third difference is, that the righteousness of Christ being imputed unto us by grace, is of greater power to bring life, than the offense of Adam is to addict his posterity to death.
- Romans 5:17 Be partakers of true and everlasting life.
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