A Voice in the Wilderness
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*** MORSEL EXTRAS***
Re: Grace Greater than Works
As Jesus Christ is stronger than Adam was, so is His righteousness more
mighty than the sin of Adam. And if the sin of Adam was sufficient
enough to make all men sinners and children of wrath, without any
misdeed of our own, much more shall Christ's righteousness be of
greater force to make us all righteous and the children of grace,
without any of our own good works. --Aonio Paleario
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one
Man's obedience many will be made righteous. Moreover the law entered
that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded
much more, -- Rom 5:19-20
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer,
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God? -- Heb 9:13-14
For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the
dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made
alive...Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the
strength of sin is the law [works]. But thanks be to God, who gives us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." -- 1 Cor 15:21-22
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