Romans 5:20

But the law came in to increase the trespass. But where sin abounded, grace abounded even more.

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Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

In Context

19For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will the many be made righteous.

21This happened so that, as sin ruled in death, even so grace might rule through righteousness for everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:9Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil even more than the nations that Yahweh had destroyed before the people of Israel.

Isaiah 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh; 1 “though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; 1 though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool. 1

Jeremiah 3:8So I saw that, in the same way that faithless Israel had committed adultery and I had sent her away and had given a bill of divorce against her, her faithless sister Judah did not fear; she also went out and acted like a prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:60But I myself will call to mind my covenant with you made in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

Micah 7:18Who is a God like you— 1 who takes away sin, 1 who passes over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? 1 He does not keep his anger forever, 1 because he delights in his covenant faithfulness. 1

Matthew 20:9When the workers who had been hired at the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.

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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