Romans 5:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

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  • Rom 5:12 : 12 The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
  • 1 Cor 15:21-22 : 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. 22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rev 20:4 : 4 Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
  • 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Isa 61:10 : 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; I will be overjoyed because of my God. For he clothes me in garments of deliverance; he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would; I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the king will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • John 10:10 : 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Rom 8:39 : 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father– to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:49 : 49 And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
  • 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 and our Lord’s grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus.
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
  • Rev 5:9-9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation. 10 You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

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  • Rom 5:7-16
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    7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

    8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    9 Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

    10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

    11 Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

    12 The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–

    13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

    14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam(who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

    15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

    16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

  • Rom 5:18-21
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    18 Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

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

    20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

    21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • 23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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    21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

    22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

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    14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

    15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

  • 1 The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

  • Rom 5:1-2
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    1 The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

    2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

  • Rom 6:9-12
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    9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

    10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

    12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

    15 The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

  • 9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!

  • 17 All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

  • 21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

  • John 1:16-17
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    16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

    17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

  • 6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

  • 17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

  • 17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

  • 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”

  • 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

  • 22 namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • 5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he?(I am speaking in human terms.)

  • 14 and our Lord’s grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus.

  • 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

  • 12 As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”

  • 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • 7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

  • 4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!