Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.
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 5:5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Genesis 19:25And he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Exodus 1:22And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Hosea 6:7But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.
Romans 5:17For if, by the offense of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:20For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.
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 →