![]() ![]() Through one man's offence, all mankind are exposed to eternal condemnation. But this other man, Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness to many through God's bountiful gift.Ĭommentary on Today's Verse Commentary on Romans 5:15-19 For this one man, Adam, brought death to many through his sin. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.Īnd what a difference between our sin and God's generous gift of forgiveness. If one man's sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God's gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do!īut the free gift is not like the offense. ![]() ![]() Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.īut the free gift is not like the trespass. The success of the crop does not depend upon our human strategies or upon our marketing techniques, but upon God's initiative of salvation “rich in mercy” and upon the efficiency of the Holy Spirit, that can transform our lives so we can bear the delicious fruits of charity and of contagious joy.Translations of Today's Verse King James Versionīut not as the offence, so also is the free gift. Augustine) we must therefore raise our morale and look at our future with the eyes of the faith. There are thousands who live their belonging to Jesus Christ and to the Church with the same enthusiasm than in the first times of the Gospel, because the divine word “finds the soil where to germinate and bear fruit” (St. There are plenty of people that after having heard all the words and din of this world are hungry and thirsty for the authentic Word of God, wherever it is, alive and incarnated. God's crop, which here on earth, grows and bears fruit, is a feat visible through its effects we can see them in actual miracles and in clamorous examples of saintliness of life. And we must also stay on our toes we must collaborate with God's grace by giving him our cooperation and opposing no obstacles to this transforming action of God. God waits on the crop that grows thanks to his grace. James says: “See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains” (James 5:7). And we must also wait while synchronizing the watch of our hopes with God's design of salvation. Time belongs to the Father, for He is the only one to know about the day or the hour (cf. He has not spared anything for the redemption of man He has vested everything in his own Son Jesus Christ who, as the seed sown in the good soil (death and burial), with his saint Resurrection has become our own life and resurrection. Today, we contemplate God as a good and magnanimous farmer, who has so richly sown his field. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him». You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. ![]() Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you. That is why the Lord has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them but on the seventh day he rested. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, your God. For the Lord will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in vain. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers' wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth you shall not bow down before them or worship them. You shall not have other gods besides me. 1 st Reading ( Exod 20:1-17): In those days: God delivered all these commandments: «I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. ![]()
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