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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift,.... By "the offence", or "fall", as the word signifies, is meant the first sin of Adam; by which he offended God, and fell from that estate in which he was created, and all his posterity with him; and by the "free gift" is meant, the righteousness of Christ, which justifies from that, and all other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] the gift,.... The apostle goes on with the dissimilitude between the effects of Adam's sin, and Christ's righteousness: for the judgment was by one to condemnation; by "judgment" is meant, not the judgment of God, or the judiciary sentence pronounced by God on Adam and his posterity for sin; but the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one,.... It may be rendered, "by one offence death reigned by one"; for it was the single sin of Adam, the first sin that was committed by him, which gave death its reigning power over the sons of men: "Adam, say (f) the Jewish doctors, transgressed, על פקודא חד דאורייתא, one commandment of the law,''...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. That is to say, upon the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Death reigned by one: much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment cam upon all men to condemnation: even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. All who are in Christ are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore as by the offence of one,.... Or by one offence, as before, the guilt of which is imputed to, and [judgment came] upon all men to condemnation; which word is used in a legal sense, and intends condemnation to eternal death, as appears from the antithesis in the text; for if "justification of life", means an adjudging to eternal life, as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,.... Agreeably to this the Jews say (g), that "for the sin of the first man, all that are born of him, יהיו רשעים, "become wicked".'' This is the sum of what is said in the foregoing verses, that as by Adam's sin all his posterity are made sinners, and so are brought under a sentence of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. That is the wonderful doctrine of “the gospel of Christ.” It is rejected in these evil days; they call it simple, and I know not what beside; but here it is put as plainly as words can put it, “As by one man’s disobedience many were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.” It was the practical result of the giving of the law that men became greater sinners than they were before, and it was the design of the law that they should see themselves to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, The law of Moses.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Moreover, the law entered,.... By "the law" is meant, not the law of nature, much less the law of sin; rather the ceremonial law, which came in over and above the moral law; it entered but for a time; by which sin abounded, and appeared very sinful; and through it the grace of God much more abounded, in the sacrifice of Christ prefigured by it:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Blessed be his holy name! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. The law was not given to Moses to stop sin, or to forgive sin, but to make men see how evil sin is, and to make it evident to them how evil they are. Rom_5:20. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: There was more grace than terror even in the law. It has served a gracious...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: Blessed be God for that! Sin may be a river, but grace is an ocean. Sin may be a mountain, but grace is like Noah’s flood, which prevailed over the tops of the mountains fifteen cubits upward.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the offence might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: It makes us see sin where we never saw it. It comes on purpose to drive us to despair of being saved by works. It bids us look to the flames that Moses saw, and shrink and tremble with despair.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That as sin hath reigned unto death,.... This is another end of the law's entrance, or rather an illustration of the grace of God, by comparing the reigns of sin and grace together: sin has such a power over man in a state of nature, as amounts to a dominion; it has not only an enticing, ensnaring power, to draw into a compliance with it, and an...