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12 Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [[a]no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.

13 [To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law [to transgress].

14 Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse, [b]the former destructive, the Latter saving].(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 5:12 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Romans 5:14 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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