Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned--for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

这就如罪是从一人入了世界，死又是从罪来的；于是死就临到众人，因为众人都犯了罪。没有律法之先，罪已经在世上；但没有律法，罪也不算罪。然而从亚当到摩西，死就作了王，连那些不与亚当犯一样罪过的，也在他的权下。亚当乃是那以后要来之人的预像。只是过犯不如恩赐，若因一人的过犯，众人都死了，何况上帝的恩典，与那因耶稣基督一人恩典中的赏赐，岂不更加倍的临到众人吗？