Romans 5:20

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Summary

Romans 5:20

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

But

General references

Matthew 19:30

Luke 15:1

John 4:30

Bible References

But

THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

Go then, and learn what is said, "I require mercy and not sacrifice:" for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

For which cause, I tell thee, her many sins are forgiven, for she hath loved much: but to whom a little is forgiven, he loveth little.

Then one of the suspended malefactors blasphemed him, saying, If thou art the Messiah, save thyself and us.

The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, whereby he hath made us acceptable in that beloved one;

AND you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolently violent, But I was admitted to mercy, for I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

General references

But many, now first, will be the last; and last, who will be the first.

THEN drew nigh unto him all the tax-farmers and the sinners to hear him.

Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.