Romans 5:12-19
1599 Geneva Bible
12 [a]Wherefore, as by [b]one man [c]sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death went over all men: [d]in whom all men have sinned.
13 [e]For unto the [f]time of the Law was sin in the world, but sin is not [g]imputed, while there is no law.
14 [h]But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over [i]them also that sinned not after the like [j]manner of the transgression of Adam, [k]which was the figure of him that was to come.
15 [l]But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of [m]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 [n]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 [o]justification.
17 [p]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, [q]reign in life through one, that is, Jesus Christ.
18 [r]Likewise then, as by the offense of one, the fault came on all men to condemnation, so by the justifying of one, the benefit abounded toward all men to the [s]justification of life.
19 [t]For as by one man’s [u]disobedience [v]many were made sinners, so by that obedience of that one, shall many also be made righteous.
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- Romans 5:12 From Adam, in whom all have sinned, both guiltiness and death (which is the punishment of the guiltiness) came upon all.
- Romans 5:12 By Adam, who is compared with Christ, like to him in this, that both of them make those who are theirs, partakers of that they have into: but they are unlike in this, that Adam deriveth sin into them that are his, even of nature, and that to death: but Christ maketh them that are his, partakers of his righteousness by grace, and that unto life.
- Romans 5:12 By sin is meant that disease which is ours by inheritance, and men commonly call it original sin: for so he useth to call that sin in the singular number, whereas, if he speaks of the fruits of it, he useth the plural number, calling them sins.
- Romans 5:12 That is, in Adam.
- Romans 5:13 That this is so, that both guiltiness and death began not after the giving and transgressing of Moses’ Law, it appeareth manifestly by that, that men died before that Law was given: for in that they died, sin, which is the cause of death, was then: and in such sort, that it was also imputeth: whereupon it followeth that there was then some Law, the breach whereof was the cause of death.
- Romans 5:13 Even from Adam to Moses.
- Romans 5:13 Where there is no Law made, no man is punished as faulty and guilty.
- Romans 5:14 But that this Law was not that universal Law, and that death did not proceed from any actual sin of everyone particularly, it appeareth hereby, that the very infants which neither could ever know nor transgress that natural Law, are notwithstanding dead as well as Adam.
- Romans 5:14 Our infants.
- Romans 5:14 Not after that sort as they sin that are of more years, following their lusts: but yet the whole posterity was corrupt in Adam, when as he wittingly and willingly sinned.
- Romans 5:14 Now the first Adam answereth the latter, who is Christ, as it is afterward declared.
- 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.
- Romans 5:18 Therefore to be short, as by one man’s offense, the guiltiness came on all men, to make them subject to death: so on the contrary side, the righteousness of Christ, which by God’s mercy is imputed to all believers, justifieth them, that they may become partakers of everlasting life.
- Romans 5:18 Not only because our sins are forgiven us, but also because the righteousness of Christ is imputed unto us.
- Romans 5:19 The ground of this whole comparison is this, that these two men are set as two stocks or roots, so that out of the one, sin by nature, out of the other, righteousness by grace doth spring forth upon others.
- Romans 5:19 So then, sin entered not into us only by following the steps of our forefather, but we take corruption of him by inheritance.
- Romans 5:19 This word, Many, is set against this word, A few.
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