Romains 5:18

18 Ainsi donc, comme un seul péché a valu la condamnation à tous les hommes, de même par une seule justice tous les hommes recevront la justification qui donne la vie.

Romains 5:18 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 5:18

Therefore as by the offence of one
Or by one offence, as before, the guilt of which is imputed to, and

[judgment came] upon all men to condemnation;
which word is used in a legal sense, and intends condemnation to eternal death, as appears from the antithesis in the text; for if "justification of life", means an adjudging to eternal life, as it certainly does, the judgment or guilt, which is unto condemnation, must design a condemnation to eternal death, the just wages of sin: and this sentence of condemnation comes upon all men, all the sons of Adam without exception, even upon the elect of God themselves; though it is not executed upon them, but on their surety, whereby they are delivered from it:

even so by the righteousness of one, [the free gift] came upon all
men to justification of life;
the righteousness of Christ being freely imputed without works, as it is to all the men that belong to the second Adam, to all his seed and offspring, is their justification of life, or what adjudges and entitles them to eternal life. The sentence of justification was conceived in the mind of God from eternity, when his elect were ordained unto eternal life, on the foot of his Son's righteousness; this passed on Christ at his resurrection from the dead, and on all his people as considered in him, when they, in consequence of it, were quickened together with him; and this passes upon the conscience of a sinner at believing, when he may, as he should, reckon himself alive unto God, and is what gives him a right and title to everlasting life and glory.

Romains 5:18 In-Context

16 Et il n'en est pas de ce don, comme de ce qui est arrivé par un seul qui a péché, car le jugement de condamnation vient d'un seul péché; mais le don gratuit, de plusieurs péchés, a tiré la justification.

17 Car, si par le péché d'un seul la mort a régné par un seul homme, à plus forte raison ceux qui reçoivent l'abondance de la grâce et du don de la justice, régneront-ils dans la vie par un seul, savoir, par Jésus-Christ!

18 Ainsi donc, comme un seul péché a valu la condamnation à tous les hommes, de même par une seule justice tous les hommes recevront la justification qui donne la vie.

19 Car, comme par la désobéissance d'un seul homme plusieurs ont été rendus pécheurs, ainsi par l'obéissance d'un seul plusieurs seront rendus justes.

20 Or, la loi est intervenue pour faire abonder le péché; mais où le péché a abondé, la grâce a surabondé,