Romans 5.12-21 Finally

I know it has been far too long since my last post. There was another death in the family, and then things with Faith Community Church have been very busy, and this section of Romans is very important and confounding. So, here is my translation, and comments will come soon. Thank you for your patience with this.

Romans 5:12-21

¹² On account of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man and death entered through sin, and in this way death spread to all people, and upon the basis of this death all sinned. ¹³ For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not reckoned when there is no law. ¹⁴ But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a type of the one to come. ¹⁵ But is not the transgression like the gift? Indeed, for if by the transgression of one the many died, how much more God’s grace and the gift in grace that is from the one man Jesus Messiah has abounded for the many. ¹⁶ And is not the result of the gift like that which resulted from the one who sinned? Indeed, for the judgment from one sin resulted in condemnation, but the gift came from many transgressions, resulting in righteousness. ¹⁷ For if death by the transgression of the one reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Messiah. ¹⁸ Therefore, then, as the transgression of one man brought condemnation to all, so also by the one man’s act of righteousness came the righteousness of life for all humanity. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many shall be made righteous. ²⁰ Now the law entered in with the purpose that transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Messiah our Lord.