Romans 5:19 “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made…”

Romans 5:19

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

World English Bible

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

American Standard Version

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

Geneva Bible 1599

For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by that obedience of that one shall many also be made righteous.

Darby Translation

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

Young's Literal Translation

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

Bible in Basic English

Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.

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Cross references

“so by”

2 Corinthians 5:21 Ephesians 1:6 Isaiah 53:10–12 Daniel 9:24 Revelation 7:9–17

2 Corinthians 5:21 · BSB

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 1:6 · BSB

to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

Isaiah 53:10–12 · BSB

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His h…

Daniel 9:24 · BSB

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and t…

Revelation 7:9–17 · BSB

After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in th…

Also

Romans 5:18 Philippians 2:8 Romans 5:12 Romans 5:15

Romans 5:18 · BSB

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

Philippians 2:8 · BSB

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.

Romans 5:12 · BSB

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 5:15 · BSB

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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