Romans 5:20–21

Summary: Man's unrighteousness brought death, but God's righteousness brings life

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The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So great is the love of our Savior-God! So rich his grace to fallen sinners deserving of death! Where sin previously reigned in death, there grace now reigns to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. As believers in Christ and beneficiaries of his grace, we might do well at this point to break out in a doxology of praise, as Paul later does:

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

How unsearchable his judgments,

and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has been his counselor?” “Who has ever given to God,

that God should repay him?”

For from him and through him and to him are all things.

To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:33-36)