Romans 5:20

The law came to make sin increase, but grace abounded all the more. Wherever sin grows, grace overflows still further.

Cross-references · 26

• Rom 6:1What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
• Titus 3:3–7For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Rom 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• Ps 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
• Gal 3:19–25Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
• Rom 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
• Eph 2:1–5And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Luke 7:47Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
• Isa 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
• Eph 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• 2 Cor 3:7–9Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
• Isa 43:24–25You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
• Ezek 36:25–32I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• 2 Chr 33:9–13So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
• John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
• Ezek 16:60–63But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
• Matt 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
• Luke 23:39–43One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• 1 Tim 1:13–16I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Jer 3:8–14She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
• Ezek 16:52So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
• Rom 7:5–13For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

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