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tion, but the free gift came of many offences unto 

 justification. 



" For if, by the trespass of the one, death 

 reigned through the one ; much more shall they that 

 receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of 

 righteousness reign in life through the one, even 

 Jesus Christ. So then as through one trespass the 

 judgment came unto all men to condemnation ; even 

 so through one act of righteousness the free gift came 

 unto all men to justification of life. 



"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. 



"And the law came in beside, that the trespass 

 might abound ; but where sin abounded, grace did 

 abound more exceedingly ; that as sin reigned in death, 

 even so might grace reign through righteousness unto 

 eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 1 



Language could not assert more clearly and 

 emphatically that the grace of God is co-extensive 

 with man's need, and more abundant than man's sin. 



Saint Paul's later epistles teach the same doctrine 

 as clearly, though not at equal length. In that to 

 the Ephesians he says: "That in the dispensation 

 of the fulness of times He might gather together in 

 one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven 

 and which are on earth." 2 And in that to the 

 Colossians : " It was the good pleasure of the Father 

 1 Romans v. 12, 21. 2 Eph. i. 10. 



