Romans 5:12-14

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Adam and Christ Compared

¹² [^LTherefore, just as] Sin came into the world ·because of what one man did [^Lthrough one man], and with sin came death. ·This is why [^L…and so; or and in this way] ·everyone must die [death spread/passed to all people]—because everyone sinned. ¹³ Sin was in the world before ·the law of Moses [^Lthe law], but sin is not ·counted against us as breaking a command [charged to one’s account; recorded as sin] when there is no law [4:15]. ¹⁴ But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, ·everyone had to die [^Ldeath reigned/ruled], even those who had not sinned ·by breaking a command, as Adam had [^Lin the likeness of Adam’s disobedience/transgression].

Adam was ·like [a type/pattern/prefigurement of] the One who was coming in the future.