Romans 5:17

World English Bible (2000)

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so 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 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • 1 Cor 15:21-22 : 21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rev 20:4 : 4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, 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 also will deny us.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Isa 61:10 : 10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
  • John 10:10 : 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Rom 8:39 : 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which 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 for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 15:49 : 49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
  • Rev 5:9-9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, 10 and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth."

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    7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

    8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

    9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

    10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

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

    12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

    13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

    14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

    15But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

    16The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

  • Rom 5:18-21
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    18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

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    11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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    13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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    12So then death works in us, but life in you.

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    7that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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    21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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    7For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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    4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.