Romans 5:19

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be constituted righteous.

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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 offense there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

20However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,

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Cross References

Romans 5:12Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned

Romans 5:18So then, as through one offense there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

Ephesians 1:6to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved;

Revelation 7:9After these things I looked, and wow, a great multitude that no one could number, from all ethnic nations and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the Throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and having 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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