20 [a]Moreover, the Law [b]entered thereupon, that the offense should abound: nevertheless, where sin abounded, there grace [c]abounded much more:

21 That as sin had reigned unto death, so might grace also reign by righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 5:20 A preventing of an objection: why then did the Law of Moses enter thereupon? that men might be so much the more guilty, and the benefit of God in Christ Jesus be so much the more glorious.
  2. Romans 5:20 Beside that disease which all men were infected withall by being defiled with one man’s sin, the Law entered.
  3. Romans 5:20 Grace was poured so plentifully from heaven, that it did not only countervail sin, but above measure passed it.

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