OUR FATHER WHO GIVES THE GIFT OF GRACE

The Apostle Paul, continuing in Romans Chapter 5 verses 12 - 17, further explains the compounded benefits of being in the life of Christ through faith.

When Adam transgressed, being the first man, sin and death entered the world and affected all humans with the same malady of sinfulness. So sinfullness existed but was not definable because there was no law but even so, sin reigned from Adam till when Moses was given the law.  Even those who sinned in different ways than Adam did sinned but had no map for it until the coming of the law which demonstrated the scope of mankindˋs corruption.

The law was the mechanism of condemnation of the sinfulness of man in all its forms.

 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— 13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. 16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. 17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

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Amen.

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