Romeinen 5:18

18 Zo dan, gelijk door een misdaad de schuld gekomen is over alle mensen tot verdoemenis; alzo ook door een rechtvaardigheid komt de genade over alle mensen tot rechtvaardigmaking des levens.

Romeinen 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.

Romeinen 5:18 In-Context

16 En niet, gelijk de schuld was door den een, die gezondigd heeft, alzo is de gift; want de schuld is wel uit een misdaad tot verdoemenis, maar de genadegift is uit vele misdaden tot rechtvaardigmaking.

17 Want indien door de misdaad van een de dood geheerst heeft door dien enen, veel meer zullen degenen, die den overvloed der genade en der gave der rechtvaardigheid ontvangen, in het leven heersen door dien Enen, namelijk Jezus Christus.

18 Zo dan, gelijk door een misdaad de schuld gekomen is over alle mensen tot verdoemenis; alzo ook door een rechtvaardigheid komt de genade over alle mensen tot rechtvaardigmaking des levens.

19 Want gelijk door de ongehoorzaamheid van dien enen mens velen tot zondaars gesteld zijn geworden, alzo zullen ook door de gehoorzaamheid van Enen velen tot rechtvaardigen gesteld worden.

20 Maar de wet is bovendien ingekomen, opdat de misdaad te meerder worde; en waar de zonde meerder geworden is, daar is de genade veel meer overvloedig geweest;