Adam and Christ: Two Heads, Two Outcomes
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass 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.
The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
