Romans 5:13-15
1599 Geneva Bible
13 [a]For unto the [b]time of the Law was sin in the world, but sin is not [c]imputed, while there is no law.
14 [d]But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over [e]them also that sinned not after the like [f]manner of the transgression of Adam, [g]which was the figure of him that was to come.
15 [h]But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of [i]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.
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- 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.
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