19 [a]For as by one man’s [b]disobedience [c]many were made sinners, so by that obedience of that one, shall many also be made righteous.

20 [d]Moreover, the Law [e]entered thereupon, that the offense should abound: nevertheless, where sin abounded, there grace [f]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 5:19 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Romans 5:19 This word, Many, is set against this word, A few.
  4. 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.
  5. Romans 5:20 Beside that disease which all men were infected withall by being defiled with one man’s sin, the Law entered.
  6. 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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