Romans 5:20

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“The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,”

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“The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,”

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KJVPD

“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:”

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“And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:”

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“And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 5:20 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 21:9So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:9So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  3. Psalms 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
  4. Isaiah 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
  5. Isaiah 43:24You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
  6. Jeremiah 3:8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
  7. Ezekiel 16:52So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
  8. Ezekiel 16:60But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
  9. Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
  10. Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
  11. Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
  12. Matthew 20:9The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
  13. Luke 7:47Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
  14. Luke 23:39One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”
  15. John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
  16. John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
  17. Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  18. Romans 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
  19. Romans 6:1What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
  20. Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
  21. Romans 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
  22. 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
  23. 2 Corinthians 3:7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
  24. Galatians 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

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