Romans 5:20
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
עוֹד
ʻôwd
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
חַטָּאָה
chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
περισσεύω
perisseúō
to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel
חֵן
chên
graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Key Terms in This Verse
περισσεύω perisseúō
to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel
Study G4052 →חֵן chên
graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)
Study H2580 →עוֹד ʻôwd
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
Study H5750 →חַטָּאָה chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
Study H2403 →Cross References
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Thou 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 bea...
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