Cross references

Romans 5:20

The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

Romans 5:20 BSB

Romans 5:20 has 26 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 19 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 6:1 (14 votes) and Romans 6:14 (14 votes). 96 other verses point back to it. It links with 28 other books, from Genesis 2 to 1 John 5.

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Which verses does Romans 5:20 point to?

The 20 strongest of 26, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Romans 6:114 votes

    What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

  2. Romans 6:1414 votes

    For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

  3. Psalm 25:1113 votes

    For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

  4. For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, …

  5. Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator. A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one. …

  6. because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  7. “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

  8. I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. …

  9. Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

  10. Luke 7:476 votes

    Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

  11. Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

  12. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. …

  13. John 10:105 votes

    The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

  14. to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace …

  15. John 15:224 votes

Which verses point to Romans 5:20?

The 10 strongest of 96.