Romans 5:20-21

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

²⁰ Now _i the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, _j grace abounded all the more, ²¹ so that, _k as sin reigned in death, _l grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1. Cross References
   Galatians 3:19
   Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
   Romans 3:20
   For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:14
   And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 5:12
   Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
   Romans 5:14
   Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
   
4. Cross References
   John 1:17
   For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.