Death in Adam, Life in Christ

¹²Therefore, just as tsin came into the world through one man, and udeath through sin, and vso death spread to all men5 because wall sinned— ¹³for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but xsin is not counted where there is no law. ¹⁴Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not ylike the transgression of Adam, zwho was a type of athe one who was to come.

¹⁵But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for bmany. ¹⁶And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For cthe judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought djustification. ¹⁷For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness ereign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Therefore, as one trespass6 led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness7 leads to justification and life for fall men. ¹⁹For as by the one man's gdisobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's hobedience the many will be made righteous. ²⁰Now ithe law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, jgrace abounded all the more, ²¹so that, kas sin reigned in death, lgrace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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