Romans 5:14-16
1599 Geneva Bible
14 [a]But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over [b]them also that sinned not after the like [c]manner of the transgression of Adam, [d]which was the figure of him that was to come.
15 [e]But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of [f]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 [g]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 [h]justification.
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- 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.
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