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Moreoverg the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much morei abound:

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Rom. 7:8‑13• ⁸But sin having taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me every lust; for apart from law sin is dead.
⁹But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,
¹⁰and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found to me unto death.
¹¹For sin having taken a point of attack by the commandment deceived me and by it slew [me].
¹²So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
¹³Did then the good become death to me? Let it not be; but sin, that it might appear sin, working out death to me by the good, that sin might become excessively sinful by the commandment. (Rom. 7:8‑13)

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John 15:22• ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22)

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Gal. 3:19• ¹⁹Why then the law? For the sake of transgressions it was added, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, being ordained by means of angels in a mediator's hand. (Gal. 3:19)

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundantly. (John 10:10)

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1 Tim. 1:14• ¹⁴and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus. (1 Tim. 1:14)

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Grace (Chen, χάρις),

Law,

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the law.

Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him, for by law [is] knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 4:15• ¹⁵For the law worketh out wrath; but where no law is, [there is] no transgression. (Rom. 4:15)

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Rom. 6:14• ¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace. (Rom. 6:14)

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Rom. 7:5‑13• ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that [were] by the law wrought in our members bringing forth fruit to death;
⁶but now have we got quittance from the law, having died in what we were held so as for us to serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
⁷What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be. Nay, I had not known sin unless by law; for lust also I had not been conscious of, unless the law had said, “Thou shalt not lust.”
⁸But sin having taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me every lust; for apart from law sin is dead.
⁹But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,
¹⁰and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found to me unto death.
¹¹For sin having taken a point of attack by the commandment deceived me and by it slew [me].
¹²So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
¹³Did then the good become death to me? Let it not be; but sin, that it might appear sin, working out death to me by the good, that sin might become excessively sinful by the commandment. (Rom. 7:5‑13)

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John 15:22• ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22)

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2 Cor. 3:7‑9• ⁷(But if the ministry of death in letter, graven on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently toward the face of Moses for the glory of his face, that was to be done away,
⁸how shall not the ministry of the Spirit rather be in glory?
⁹For if the ministry of condemnation [have] glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑9)

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Gal. 3:19‑25• ¹⁹Why then the law? For the sake of transgressions it was added, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, being ordained by means of angels in a mediator's hand.
²⁰But the mediator is not of one, but God is one.
²¹[Is] therefore the law against the promises of God? Let it not be. For if there had been given a law which could quicken, in very truth by law would have been righteousness.
²²But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those that believe.
²³But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up unto the faith about to be revealed.
²⁴So that the law hath been our tutor unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
²⁵But faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor; (Gal. 3:19‑25)

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Rom. 6:1• ¹What then shall we say? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? (Rom. 6:1)

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2 Chron. 33:9‑13• ⁹{i}And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they did not hearken.{/i}
¹¹{i}And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.{/i}
¹²{i}And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,{/i}
¹³{i}and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.{/i} Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God. (2 Chron. 33:9‑13)

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Psa. 25:11• ¹¹For thy name's sake, O Jehovah,{HR}Thou hast even pardoned mine iniquity,{HR}For it [is] great. (Psa. 25:11)

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Isa. 1:18• ¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:18)

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Isa. 43:24‑25• ²⁴Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
²⁵I, I [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins. (Isa. 43:24‑25)

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Jer. 3:8‑14• ⁸{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i}
⁹{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.{/i}
¹¹{i}And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shown herself more just than treacherous Judah.{/i}
¹²{i}Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say{/i}, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, and I will not keep anger forever.
¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.
¹⁴Turn, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah, for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: (Jer. 3:8‑14)

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Ezek. 16:52,60‑63• ⁵²Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
⁶⁰Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
⁶¹Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
⁶²And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah:
⁶³that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth anymore because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 16:52,60‑63)

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Ezek. 36:25‑32• ²⁵Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
²⁶A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
²⁷And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
²⁹I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
³⁰And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
³¹Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
³²Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. (Ezek. 36:25‑32)

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Mic. 7:18‑19• ¹⁸{i}Who is a God like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness.{/i}
¹⁹{i}He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.{/i} (Mic. 7:18‑19)

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Matt. 9:13• ¹³{i}But go and learn what [that] is—I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous [men] but sinners.{/i} (Matt. 9:13)

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Luke 7:47• ⁴⁷For which cause I say unto thee, Her many sins are forgiven, for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loveth little. (Luke 7:47)

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Luke 23:39‑43• ³⁹Now one of the hanged malefactors reviled him. Art not thou the Christ? Save thyself and us.
⁴⁰But the other in answer rebuking him said, Dost not even thou fear God, because thou art in the same judgment?
⁴¹And we indeed justly, for we receive the due requital for what we have done, but this [man] has done nothing amiss.
⁴²And he said to Jesus, Remember me when thou shalt come in thy kingdom.
⁴³And he said to him, Verily, I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:39‑43)

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John 10:10• ¹⁰The thief cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundantly. (John 10:10)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom.
¹¹And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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Eph. 1:6‑8• ⁶unto [the] praise of [the] glory of his grace, wherein he made us objects of grace in the beloved;
⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace,
⁸which he caused to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligence, (Eph. 1:6‑8)

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Eph. 2:1‑5• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest;
⁴but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved), (Eph. 2:1‑5)

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1 Tim. 1:13‑16• ¹³though before I was a blasphemer and persecutor and doer of outrage. But I had mercy shown me because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief;
¹⁴and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.
¹⁵Faithful [is] the word and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
¹⁶But for this cause mercy was shown me that in me, [as] chief, Christ might display the whole long-suffering for an outline-sketch of those that should believe on him unto life eternal. (1 Tim. 1:13‑16)

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Titus 3:3‑7• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another.
⁴But when the kindness and the love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not by works in righteousness which we ourselves did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
⁶which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:3‑7)

• Not only where the offense, but where sin abounded—for under the law and without the law it has abounded—grace has superabounded. (“Romans 5:12-21” by J.N. Darby)

• Sin was already there; the law made each of its motions a positive offense. (“Romans 5:12-21” by J.N. Darby)

• Dreadful as are the consequences of the sin, the outgoings of grace exceed them (Rom. 5:20). (“Hunt’s Sayings - 391” by R. Hunt)

• Both the "offence" and "grace" have abounded in opposite directions—with grace abounding "much more." Thus, the entrance of sin into the world has become an opportunity for God to magnify His grace by rising over it all. (“The Doctrine of DeliveranceFrom Sin: Romans 5:12-7:6” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But law came ina, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

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Came in as an extra thing, or by the by.

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But law came in by the waya, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded

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Every word is uttered with the greatest accuracy. Thus the apostle speaks of the legal state of things, and hence employs the word "law" here as in verse 13 without the article. It is clearly the Mosaic law that is in question. Not the historical fact, but the resulting state is here meant.