12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Roman 5:12-14
Outline
- The problem of sin
- Where there was no law, there still was sin
- Jesus is the fulfilment of all things
11 We also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Romans 2:12 that “all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law.”
Romans 3:20 “For by the works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.”
14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Summary
- We have a sin problem
- There is sin without the law
- Jesus is the fulfilment of all things