From there they sailed to Antioch--the place where they had been committed to the gracious care of God for the work which they had now finished.

While Paul chose Silas for his companion and, after he had been committed by the Brethren to the gracious care of the Lord,

But there is a contrast between Adam's Offence and God's gracious Gift. For, if by reason of the offence of the one man the whole race died, far more were the loving-kindness of God, and the gift given in the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ, lavished upon the whole race.

There is a contrast, too, between the gift and the results of the one man's sin. The judgment, which followed upon the one man's sin, resulted in condemnation, but God's gracious Gift, which followed upon many offences, resulted in a decree of righteousness.