The scripture

this morning is Romans 5, 12 through 21.

I invite you to follow along with me in your Bibles.

Therefore, just as through one man,

sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned, for until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless, death

reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of

the offense of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the transgression.

For if by the transgression 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.

And the gift is not like that which came through the one who

send.

For on the one hand, the judgment arose from one

transgression resulting in condemnation.

But on the other hand, the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting

in justification.

For if by the transgression of the one, death reined through the one, much more those who receive the abundance

of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. So then, as through one transgression, there

resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness,

there resulted justification of life to all men.

For, as through the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners.

Even so, through the obedience of the one the many will be made righteous

and the law came in that the transgression might increase but where sin, grace abounded all the more.

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