Romans 5:12
Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Cross References
Genesis 2:17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Romans 3:23For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
Romans 5:19For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous.
Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew Henry on Romans 5:7-21
The First and the Second Adam; The Influence of Grace. ( a. d. 58.) 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the… Read the whole commentary →