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In Paul's writings in the previous chapter 4, he had completed his argument that Abraham was justified by his Faith because He believed in the Word of Yahweh God. But let us bring to remembrance the last 3 verses of the last chapter 4, where Paul was speaking of Abraham's justifying faith for he believed that what Yahweh God had promised, He would fulfill.
Romans 4:

23 Now it was not written for his [Abraham's] sake alone, that righteousness was imputed to him:
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But for us also to whom it [justification by Faith IN Yahweh God] shall be imputed [to us] if we believe on Him [Yahweh God Almighty] Who raised up [the Man, the genetic Son of Adam] Jesus  our Lord from the dead:
25 For Christ Jesus was delivered [up by Yahweh] for our offenses, and was raised again to LIFE [by Yahweh] for our justification.

Of primary importance for us, is  to remember that sin naturally became affixed to mankind, because of the rebellion of the first Adam/Man. All of the genetic offspring of Adam lost the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God and mankind became addicted to their right to be right in their own eyes.  Man's addiction to sin and death came to all of mankind by the sin of Adam for the rebellious sin of man displaced the Holy Spirit of LIFE of Yahweh God:  However, in His creation, the Eternal Yahweh Elohim Promised LIFE to all faithful believers in His Resurrection of the One infinitely Righteous Man Christ Jesus/Yeshua. The first Adam/Man sinned and brought death to mankind, but the Last Adam/Man, Yeshua/Jesus was One and complete in righteousness with His Father's Spirit of LIFE, and Yeshua brings LIFE to the faithful dead whether they are Jew or Gentile in like Faith IN Christ.

1st Corinthians

16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised [from the dead]:

17 And if Christ be not raised [from the dead], [then] your faith is vain, and you are yet [dead] in your sins.

18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

19 If in this life  we only have hope in [a dead] Christ, [then] we are of all men most miserable.

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.

21 For since by [the first] Man [Adam] came death, by [the genetically true last] man [Christ] came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so [those] IN Christ [Messiah by Faith] shall all be made alive.

5th Chapter of Romans

 1 Therefore being justified by Faith IN Christ Jesus we have Peace with God through [the Righteous Chagigah Offering of] our Lord Jesus Christ:

By Whom [Christ Jesus] we also have access by Faith IN His Grace wherein we are able to [firmly] stand [in His Grace], and rejoice in hope of the Glory of God, [seen in Eternal LIFE].

With IN the depths of our Faith in Christ Jesus we have access through Yahweh God's One Holy Spirit  into this Grace that is given to repentant believers who partake of His Substance of Faith that gives LIFE to the dead in sin.  Without the Living Grace of Yahweh IN Christ Jesus then the sinner mired in death will not be able to stand IN the TRUTH of Yahweh the God of the Living.

And not only this, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

Yahweh God, through His Spirit IN Christ, is at work in the lives of those who are in repentance having been called upon to acquiesce to His gracious Mercy In His WORD and only begotten only begotten Son Jesus Christ.  Then though Yahweh's great Patience, He will seek to bring correcting tribulations into the souls of the submitted of mankind that they may be justified by His ineffable Grace that is IN Christ Jesus.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

And hope makes us not ashamed; because the Love of [Yahweh] God is shed abroad in our hearts by His Holy Spirit Who is given unto us [IN our Faith IN Christ Jesus].

John the Baptist calls to remembrance  the writings of Matthew:

11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He that comes after me, is mightier than me, for He [Yeshua Messiah] shall baptize you with His Holy Spirit and with fire: 12 Whose fan is in His hand, for He will thoroughly purge His Floor, then gather His wheat into His barn, for He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3 verse 11 thru 12.)

Romans 5:

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure [perhaps] for a good man some would even dare to die.

But [Yahweh] God Commended His Love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The Love of [Yahweh] God is One IN His Only Begotten Son, born of the flesh of Man/Adam.

Much more then, being now justified by His [Christ LIFE] Blood, we shall be saved from wrath [the wrath of sin] through Him.

10 For when we were enemies of Yahweh God, we were reconciled to [Yahweh] God by the death of His Son, then much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved [from sin and death] by His [Christ's resurrection to] LIFE.

The violence of sin has its own reward of death, and as we know, death came into existence in all of mankind through the rebellion of the first Man, Adam, a created son of God.  Sin and death is naturally rewarded with more sin and its poisonous fruit of death; and now we know why our own unrighteous judgment ends in our total corruption.  Holy Yahweh Almighty God, the Creator of the good, is absolutely Just, therefore His Holiness allows for the rebellious enmity of man to reap what he has sown of his own rebelliousness that breeds death.  Unrepented sin is repulsed by the Holiness of Yahweh God and has nowhere to go but into the depths of death from where the darkness of sin was conceived.  In what would be Elohim's creation of free thinking Man, the Almighty Creator knew that sin would come as a result of Man's own free choice, and because of a person's own sin, no one could offset mankind's rebellious propensities that only lead to death and darkness.  

So from before the foundation of the world, and before Man or any entity was created to be in the world, the Almighty God planned His Own Perfect Offering for sin's corruption with His own Perfect Lamb.  John the Baptist cried out through the Spirit of God: Behold the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.    The Lamb of God was the innocent and pure genetic Son of the first Adam/Man, and as the last Man of Adam kind, the Lamb would come into the world, and with His Father's unction He would offer up His sinless LIFE for the sin and death of the first Man/Adam.  With the sinless death of the last Adam/Man, as an offering for the sinning death of the first Adam/Man, Holy God's justice is satisfied, and allows Him to be at Peace with mankind. The Sinless Christ of God is resurrected to the LIFE of His Eternal Father.  

Now IN His Eternal Wisdom, Yahweh God sets the Man Jesus Christ at His Right Hand with all the Power of Yahweh's Majesty, for Yeshua haMashiach, the Man, will judge sinful mankind with equity according to the WAY of TRUTH that is of His Eternal Father Yahweh God.  The TRUTH of God Almighty desires to extend to ignorant mankind His Mercy IN the 'LIFE' giving Blood of His Only Begotten Son, the Man Christ Jesus. (See Matthew 9 verse 2 thru 7.) Why would anyone choose to remain eternally dead in their sins and trespasses, when the Gift of LIFE is extended to anyone who chooses to live IN the LIFE Offering of Yeshua the Messiah. (See 1st Peter 1 verse 18 thru 20.) (See John's Revelation 13 verse 8 thru 9.) (See Paul's h Ephesians 1 verse 3 thru 5,)

Being justified by Yahweh God, Abraham had seen in a vision the Power of Almighty God and that Yahweh, the God of the Living, would perform that which He had Promised.  Abraham's Faith IN Yahweh God was imputed as righteousness into the very soul of the man who had become friend of Almighty God.  And so it is with believers whose faith remains constant in the Eternal God of the Living.  The only Eternal God imputes the righteousness of Faith into the soul of those He foreknew from Eternity, and He will raise their souls from the dead. 

From before the foundation of the World Yahweh God was One with His Perfect Lamb, and Abram put into a deep sleep of horror, saw into the future that Yahweh completed His Covenant Promise with His Own Lamb slain even before the foundation of the World. (See Genesis 15 verse 17.) Could it be that Abram saw the fullness of the death and resurrection of God's only begotten Son of the genetic Seed of David. Yahweh's Covenant imputation of justification by Faith declares that we believers were justified because of our Living Faith IN Christ Jesus and therefore, we have Peace with God because the all-knowing Yahweh God accepted the sinless offering of Messiah's LIFE as the Son of Man/Adam for the sin of man kind.

The Grace of Yahweh God comes to believers through Jesus Christ the Last Adam and Christ's Righteousness that is of His Father God. Let us understand, that Yeshua haMashiach from the beginning had to be of absolute perfection in Yahweh God's Eyes to overcome the first Man's rebellion against his Maker, and subsequently the rebellion of all of Adam's genetic offspring born into Adam's sin and death. The debt for mankind's sin and death is is fully paid for by Jesus' sinless offering of His LIFE for reparation for sin. However, all that He has died for, will not come to the freedom that the Grace of Yahweh God provides IN Christ Offering of His LIFE to those who have faith IN the Eternal One of LIFE.  Paul writes in his letter to the Romans: Shall we continue in sin and death that grace would increase? God forbid. How shall we that are dead because of sin, continue to live in our sinning that kills us.

God's Grace is not a one time event for repentant sinners, for inevitably our own idolatrous sin will cause us to wander and bring death to our hope.  The Eternal Wisdom of God provides His continuing access to His Grace through Jesus Christ and His New Covenant LIFE Blood.  His Grace when accessed in repentance, will allow for sinners to continue to stand in Yahweh's justification and rejoice in the Hope of seeing the Glory of God.   Unseen  Faith in the Word of God, is our surety, and that same Faith in Communion is IN the unseen LIFE IN the Body and Blood, of our High Priest, that brings us through the Door, and into the Presence of Yahweh God Almighty. 

Why would any dieing sinner choose the grave and dismiss the vitality of LIFE IN the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ.  But that is just what the Evangelical Churches have done.  In their ignorance of the Holiness of all Powerful Word of God they have declared the Lord's Sanctifying Communion LIFE Blood to be merely symbolic.  The Evangelicals have replaced the Communion Table of the Lord with their preaching pulpit of idolatrous worship.  The pulpit preacher is now the center of attention in the Evangelical churches, and no matter how you look at it, this exchange of focus in Christ Jesus, is to that of idolatrous worship of the person behind the pulpit. The Eternal Word of God Declares His Grace: Take and Drink all of you, for This IS My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin.

Yahweh God decreed that a New Eternal Covenant IN the Blood of His Perfect Lamb would come into affect, replacing the old Covenant that was broken by the Hebrews. The Old Covenant was in the shed blood of sacrificial animals; and the animal sacrifices were in effect a temporary covering for sin and the covering lasted for 3500 years.    But the blood of animals could never take away sin's causative death of Mankind: for the Justice of Holy God always required the shedding of the Life Blood of Man, to satisfy His Righteousness.  We know by Yahweh's revelation that the New Covenant is IN the Blood of the Man Jesus Christ.   Beyond any logical understanding, spiritual or otherwise, the Evangelicals, have made Yahweh's  New Covenant in the eating and drinking of the cleansing Blood of Jesus Christ as unnecessary for the remission of the ongoing sins for the people.   They essentially voided the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ that gives LIFE to the repentant sinning dead.  

The Evangelicals have continually denied the TRUTH of Yahweh's New Covenant Grace in the Communion Blood of His Son, and in their sin, they stealthily imply that Koininia is not necessary in God's New Covenant: After all, their self proclaiming doctrine declares that you are no longer accountable for your sinning once you heard them loudly preach of salvation in their own charismatic doctrine of 'once save always save'.  Now the flesh and blood idols behind the pulpit, continue to present their idyllic doctrine for their segmented livelihood.  Their preaching dollar rewards along with the written books they sell for their designated love offerings will  show the sinning followers just how it is done.

The apostle James declares the TRUTH of Yahweh Elohim's Salvation: God resist the proud, but gives Grace to the Humble: Therefore Submit yourself to [Yahweh] God [Through the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ], then resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Where does our submission to God Begin?  Yahweh God resist the resistance of the proud who are dead right in their judgment of within their own eyes, but Yahweh's grace will find those who humble themselves in the WAY of the Lord.  The WAY of the LORD Yeshua, is His sinless righteousness, for without sin the devil has nothing to accuse the submitted person, and will flea from the person who lives IN the LIFE of Christ Jesus. The apostle John declares:  God is Light with no darkness in Him at all. If we say that we have Fellowship with Him and walk in darkness then we are liars and have no part in the TRUTH and Word of Eternal God. The Apostle Peter writes: Chosen according to the foreknowledge of [the Eternal] God, and sanctified by [Yahweh] God's Spirit unto obedience with the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ; [God's] Grace unto you and [His] Peace be multiplied unto you.

The apostle Jude the brother of James writes: Mercy unto you, and Peace and Love be Multiplied. There are men that have secretly crept in to your fellowship, who were ordained to this condemnation.  They are ungodly men that have turned the Grace of our God into lasciviousness, thereby denying the only Lord [Yahweh] God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through Isaiah the Lord God Declares:

Behold I have refined you, but not like silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction for My Own Sake: Even for My Own Sake will I put you in the furnace of affliction, for how should My Name be polluted [in your sin]?  I Will not give My Glory to anyone who pollutes My Name. (See Isaiah 48 verse 9 thru 11.)

God's Gift of Faith is forever established IN the Righteous Eternal LIFE of the Man Christ Jesus

The justifying Faith that we are to have IN Christ Jesus, is IN the fullness of the Grace that Yahweh's Holy Spirit Provides IN His giving of the renewing Power of LIFE of Christ at the Lord's Table of bountiful Grace.

Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world. so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but would have Eternal Life.  The full payment for sin and death was attainted for all of mankind by the death, burial, and resurrection of the One Man Jesus Christ. But not all will grasp hold of the Free Gift of reconciliation with God.

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the atonement.

For those who faithfully love God Almighty, Jesus Christ stated at His Table at the Feast of Unleavened Bread: Drink all of you for this IS My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin. By the Word of God, the Lord and Creator of the universe  declares three things of God's New Covenant TRUTH. First: we are to drink,  Second: It is Christ's Blood in the Cup of Blessing that we drink. And third: The procurement is for the many who by faith drink Christ LIFE giving Blood for the remission of their sins of their selfish flesh.  Repentance with Faith in God is the prerequisite to inter into His Covenant: for Covenant Faith with Yahweh God is active in its actions and is not innocuous words of appeasement.

The  following Scripture is unequivocal the TRUTH.    

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world the world, and death by sin, so then death was passed upon all men, for all of mankind have sinned.  

I am troubled by parentheses that encompass what is thought to be God inspired Scripture. The Scriptures in the Old and New Covenants have a long history of translation in the known vernacular of a nation.  Many of the words of some of the scribes of earlier times were reconstructions from fragmented scriptures in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin,  and were added into separate books written in old English.  Translations of the Bible into English often included the writer's own commentary on passages that they thought would augment the literal translation into the King's English.  That which was available are linked with Wycliffe in the year 1382 and Tyndale in 1526. In the 17th century there developed a version of the bible that is spiced with the days politics.   Sometimes lexicographers provide their own subjective opinion of what is right or wrong or may produce a blended opinion that subjectively leaves out a right or wrong that may produce error in the readers mind.  Such may be the blended subjective opinion expressed in Romans 5 verse 13 through 17.  Newer versions have borrowed from the same passages that can leave a questionable response to the understanding of the WORD of GOD IN Christ Jesus.  In deference to  your own thoughts on this matter, we have off set Roman chapter 5 verse 13 thru 17 that in the King James Version  are set in parentheses.  Please let us judge the holy matter with Yahweh God's One Holy Spirit.

(13 For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of Him that was to come.
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 But not as the offence, so also is the Free Gift.
For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the Grace of God, and the Gift by Grace, which is by the One Man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto many.
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 And not as it was by one  that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one  to condemnation, but the Free Gift is of many offences unto justification.
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 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of Grace and of the Gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One Jesus Christ.)

The verses 13 through 17, enwrapped in parenthesis', when read in the Authorized King James Version, can create confusion.  The script's transliterated language from Greek to English, in its 17th century form, does not clearly state the fullness of Yahweh God's Salvation and Sanctification by the One Man Christ Jesus and His Cleansing Victory over the infectious sin of the first Man, Adam.  The not so simple fact which we need to understand, is that in the day that Elohim God formed Man, male and female, He created Adam to be in His Image and Likeness.  In the Greek language, there is a distinction between image and likeness  The genetics of the first Adam would make all of the prodigy of Adam and his wife Ishshah to be of one nature in the image of the flesh of earthly Adam.  But the Likeness of the Spirit of Yahweh God is altogether another matter that concerns the misuse of God's gift of free thought given to his creation of Man.  When the thoughts of lust began to move within the mind of Adam, the desire for power consumed Adam, and he chose to rebel against His Maker.  With the full conception of lust in Adam's soul then it gave birth to Adam's rebellion and directly caused the Breath of LIFE of the Spirit of Yahweh God to leave Adam to his own lustful desires and now death has displaced the LIFE of Yahweh God in the soul of Adam and all of mankind.  The distinct Likeness of Almighty God is His One Holy Spirit of LIFE, for the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God IS LIFE to all of the dead souls of mankind that are called to believe IN Yahweh's WORD of LIFE that is the Man, Yeshua haMashiach.  The unseen souls of mankind are all made dead because of the unseen entity of sin, and, to see LIFE, the dead soul of man must be born again through Yahweh God's Spirit of  LIFE IN the sinless genetic Son of Man, the Last Adam Jesus Christ.

But let us investigate and begin to settle our selves in the Living TRUTH of the WORD GOD that surpasses our human understanding.  We all want to be helpful, so you will notice that we may have set in [Brackets] removable insertions to Scripture that we think would be of assistance to the reader of our inquisition into the TRUTH of GOD.

13 For without the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

 Romans chapter 5 verse 13 might be better understood in this restructured form.  13 Before the law in Commandments was given to men by God, sin was already at work in the world: But sin was not not known to exist,  until the the Law in Commandments was given by Yahweh God to reveal sins dominion in the realm of death.

Because of Adam's rebellion against His Maker, it is true that the structureless entity of sin was in the earth several centuries before the Lord Yahweh God brought the 10 Commandments into earthly existence. But understand the TRUTH of His WORD, for the 10 Commandment, written in earthly stone, were given in the Wisdom of God to be warning signs that would continually reveal sin to be death to all of earthly mankind.  The Commandments were not given to reveal our Holy God's angry Judgment against sin, for sin by itself has it own corrupting dominion of death that separates mankind from the Kingdom of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh, the Only God of the Living.  Death will come to all of mankind because of sin; for sin is death.  

Again, let us understand that the Ten Commandments were not given by God to reveal His vengeful wrath against mankind's sinful nature, but the Commandments would reveal sin as death to mankind, for Almighty God desired for mankind to have the Wisdom to avoid sin's condemnation of death. The fact is, death came under the dominion of sin.  Death can be witnessed as the definitive after affect of sin, but death's causative factor by sin is not understood in the earthly societies of today.  The insecure nature of mankind, naturally compares themselves to others of their kind, and will edit a form of god to conform to their own insecure nature.  In either case, an illicit understanding of the nature of life can be exacerbated into further falsehood by the written, but irregular form of English in the King James Version of the 16th century, and thought by many KJ Veer's to be the definitive interpretation of the Word of God.

14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after [in] the similitude [likeness] of Adam's transgression,
 Who is the figure [genetic pattern] of Him [the First Adam] that was to come.

Nevertheless, Death reigned from Adam to Moses, The transliterated word 'Nevertheless' is an earthly intrusion of the vanity of the translator that has little value for our immediate understanding, for the true word should be the transliterated definitive first inclusive Hebrew word 'But', for the word 'but' is inclusive of verse 13. Also, after years of continuous searching's of Scripture we have concluded with scripture that the total sum of sin existed first with in Lucifer's conceited wisdom and beauty. ( See Ezekiel 28 verse 12 thru 19.) Now to the immature Adam was given the one warning by the Word of His Father God:  Do not partake of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: For in the day that you would eat of the fruit, you will definitely die. Adam could not see the TRUTH IN the WORD of his Father God.  For In Adam's unbelief, unseen sin began to lurk within the recesses of Adam's open mind and the growth of sin fomented the spiritual darkness of death.  Death reigned even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression Stealthy Satan blinded Adam with the darkness of death, for the deceiver used Adam's own reasoning within his free thinking mind and planted his seed of lust to be conceived in Adam's mind and then give birth to Adam's treasonous actions which warranted death for his treason against Elohim God. 

Moses, a man of Hebrew birth grew up to have might in the land of Egypt, and was chosen by Yahweh Almighty God to reveal His warnings to the Hebrew of Yahweh God of unseen sin's nature to destroy relationships. The one treasonous sin of Adam that brought death to all of mankind, and sin's death would initiate the Eternal Yahweh God to set in stone His 10 Commandments that warned Israel to not become shackled in the bondage of sin that only breeds death and destruction.  But the Only Eternal Yahweh God the Creator of time and space, knew before HE created the foundation of the world, the very course of sin and death, and IN His Eternal Covenant with His WORD of LIFE, in the end, He would bring forth His declared innocent Lamb that was predestined to be slain for the sin of the world.  For Yeshua haMashiach is of the genetic pattern of First Adam and is come as the genetic Last Adam.

15 But not as the offence, so also is the Free Gift.
For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the Grace of God, and the Gift [of LIFE] by Grace, which is by the One Man, Jesus Christ, [and] has abounded unto many.
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 And not as it was by one  that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one  to condemnation, but the Free Gift is of many offences unto justification.
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 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of Grace and of the Gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One Jesus Christ.)

Even as by the offence of the first Man, Adam brought death to all of mankind, so then also is the Free Gift of LIFE which is by the ONE Man, the Last Adam, Jesus Christ.  And now Yahweh's Gift of LIFE IN Christ Jesus has abundantly flourished in the many that receive LIFE through His Grace IN His Only Begotten Son.  So then IN the justice of Yahweh God even as death came because of the one Man Adam that sinned, so is the Free Gift of LIFE provided IN the ONE Man of Righteousness, Jesus Christ.  And so Justification was not only for the one man that first sinned, for the judgment of the one man brought condemnation to all of mankind, but now the Free Gift  of LIFE IN the ONE Man Christ is given to assuage the many offenses of mankind so that all that come to Christ may all  be justified by Yahweh's Grace IN His Son, in spite of man's sin.

The expanded Fact is that the first Man, Adam sinned in his rebellion against the WORD of His Creator, and Adam's treason would reap death, not only for him but for all of mankind. Our fleshly nature provides the evidence of our  impending demise, for we have all proved ourselves to be guilty of sin and looking for a Savior to save us from death .

17 For if by one [Man's, Adam's] offence death reigned because of  one [Man, Adam]; then much more they which receive the abundance of Grace from God, and of His Gift of Righteousness, that they shall reign in LIFE by One  [Man] Jesus Christ [the True fully genetic Son of the first Adam].

Definition: receive

The Gift of Yahweh God is LIFE IN Christ Jesus and is presented to all who will take the free Righteous Gift and use the Gift for the Glory of Yahweh God.   Yahweh God is extending His open Hand with His free Gift to all of mankind that will receive His Gift of LIFE into their bosom.

  1. to take

    1. to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it

      1. to take up a thing to be carried

      2. to take upon one's self

    2. to take in order to carry away

      1. without the notion of violence, i,e to remove, take away

    3. to take what is one's own, to take to one's self, to make one's own

      1. to claim, procure, for one's self

        1. to associate with one's self as companion, attendant

      2. of that which when taken is not let go, to seize, to lay hold of, apprehend

      3. to take by craft (our catch, used of hunters, fisherman, etc.), to circumvent one by fraud

      4. to take to one's self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self

      5. catch at, reach after, strive to obtain

      6. to take a thing due, to collect, gather (tribute)

    4. to take

      1. to admit, receive

      2. to receive what is offered

      3. not to refuse or reject

      4. to receive a person, give him access to one's self,

      5. to regard any one's power, rank, external circumstances, and on that account to do some injustice or neglect something

    5. to take, to choose, select

    6. to take beginning, to prove anything, to make a trial of, to experience

  2. to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back (that which is lost)

The wise in heart would receive the free Gift that is offered by Yahweh God in His New Covenant into the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ that is provided  for mankind's many offences that only breed death.  If the Free Gift is not received and cherished by Yahweh God's intended receiver then the Gift is of no consequences in what the Free Gift would provide.  Know for a surety, that mankind cannot save himself from sin's death, But the Merciful Yahweh God has provided IN the Communion  Body and Blood of Jesus Christ His WAY of escape from sin and death! (See Paul's writings 1st Corinthians 10 verse 14 thru 17.) Make no lethal mistake: For there is not a way as in many ways of escape from corruption, but there is only one WAY of escape for the WAY is IN receiving the LIFE giving  Blood of Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah.

Later in his writings, Paul will bring unseen sin to the forefront of his knowledge, by revealing sin to be the cause of death in mankind.  The fact is that sin causing death, is first  revealed by the warning of God, given to Adam in the Garden of Eden.  Adam's unbelieving rational caused his rebellion against his Creator, and set in motion all of the ramifications of sin's corruption into death.  Until Christ Jesus would come into the world to remit sin, Yahweh Elohim's gave the needful Ten warning Commandments, that would reveal sin as the unseen causative factor of death.  This is the reason we hear Paul lament after his discovery of the Law of Sin working in his flesh, which showed him to be in the clutches of Death: "Who will save me from this body of death?"  Sin is innately imbedded in the flesh of all of mankind and without the warnings of the Ten Commandments, sin's corruption into death could not be known.

If the verse 13 through 17 were removed from the script, then the Scripture would flow with clarity without the well meaning insertions.

18 Therefore as by the offence of one [Adam], judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One [Man Christ Jesus] the Free Gift [of LIFE] became available to all men unto justification through the LIFE of Christ.

The  Grace of God is brought about by the One Man Jesus Christ; for God accepted this One Man's sinless Offering of Himself for the (gross) sins of mankind. Yahweh God's procurement, for the justification of mankind, came through the Sacrificed LIFE of Jesus Christ, but not all will enter into Yahweh God's New Covenant IN the LIFE Blood of Yahweh's Only Begotten Son. Those that received the abundance of the Grace of God through their Faith IN the WORD of God, thankfully grasped the TRUTH and follow the WAY of LIFE of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into His Kingdom of Righteous Living.

19 For as by one man's [Adam] disobedience many were made sinners, so by the Obedience of One [Man Christ Jesus], shall many be made righteous.

20 Moreover the Law [in the 10 Commandments] entered, that the offence might abound [be reveled]. But where sin abounded [was revealed],  [God's] Grace did much more abound:

Holy Lord God Almighty, could never of had the desire to see sin increase in numbers that produced more death, but through the warnings of the Ten Commandments then the corruption of stealthy sin would be seen for what it is death and separation from Yahweh the Only God of the Living.

21 That as sin has reigned unto death, even so that [Yahweh] God's Grace might reign through righteousness unto Eternal LIFE through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Salvation Grace of Yahweh God is IN His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and it is wise to handle the Free Gift of Yahweh God with Holy reverence for His Grace leads us in The WAY. the TRUTH. and the LIFE of men, whereby no one comes to Holy Yahweh Father God, except by Yeshua haMashiach, and in the English vernacular, Jesus Christ.

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