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Romans 5:19

For through the disobedience of one man many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of one Man many shall be constituted righteous.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

In Context

18So then, as through one man's transgression judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

20But the law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

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Cross References

Romans 5:12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed to all men, because all sinned—

Romans 5:18So then, as through one man's transgression judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

Revelation 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, out of every nation, and from tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, having been clothed in long white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

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 →

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