Romans 5:12–19

Death Came through Adam but Life Comes through Christ

¹²Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned. ¹³For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one’s account when there^* is no law. ¹⁴But death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who is to come. ¹⁵But the gift is not like the trespass^b, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many. ¹⁶And the gift is not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one sin led to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, led to justification. ¹⁷For if by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. ¹⁸Consequently therefore, as through one trespass came condemnation to all people, so also through one righteous deed came justification of life to all people. ¹⁹For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.