Romans 5:19

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

Text-Critical English 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, just as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

20Now the law came in so that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,

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Cross References

Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, in this way death has come to all men, because all have sinned.

Romans 5:18So then, just as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Ephesians 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

Revelation 7:9After this I looked, and behold, there was a great multitude, which no one could number, from every nation, tribe, people, and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in 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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