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

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?

Go and learn what this means--'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

And for this, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, have been pardoned, because she has loved greatly; but one who has little pardoned him, loves but little."

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said.

The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in greater fullness.

Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

General references

But many who are first now will then be last, and those who are last will be first.

The tax-gatherers and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to him;

And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.