Romans 5:14-16

5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type ¹  of the coming one) transgressed. ²  5:15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. ³  For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, ⁴  how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! 5:16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned. ⁵  For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, ⁶  led to condemnation, but ⁷  the gracious gift from the many failures ⁸  led to justification.

¹ tn Or “pattern.”

² tn Or “disobeyed”; Grk “in the likeness of Adam’s transgression.”

³ tn Grk “but not as the transgression, so also [is] the gracious gift.”

⁴ sn Here the one man refers to Adam (cf. 5:14).

⁵ tn Grk “and not as through the one who sinned [is] the gift.”

⁶ tn The word “transgression” is not in the Greek text at this point, but has been supplied for clarity.

⁷ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

⁸ tn Or “falls, trespasses,” the same word used in vv. 15, 17, 18, 20.