for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes watch; his eyes examine all people.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is his name!”

For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!