12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned-
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned--
12 You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we're in - first sin, then death, and no one exempt from either sin or death.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned--
12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
9 We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.
(Read Romans 6:3-10)
Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature, called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is crucified with Christ, in every true believer, by the grace derived from the cross. It is weakened and in a dying state, though it yet struggles for life, and even for victory. But the whole body of sin, whatever is not according to the holy law of God, must be done away, so that the believer may no more be the slave of sin, but live to God, and find happiness in his service.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Romans 5:12
Commentary on Romans 5:12-14
(Read Romans 5:12-14)
The design of what follows is plain. It is to exalt our views respecting the blessings Christ has procured for us, by comparing them with the evil which followed upon the fall of our first father; and by showing that these blessings not only extend to the removal of these evils, but far beyond. Adam sinning, his nature became guilty and corrupted, and so came to his children. Thus in him all have sinned. And death is by sin; for death is the wages of sin. Then entered all that misery which is the due desert of sin; temporal, spiritual, eternal death. If Adam had not sinned, he had not died; but a sentence of death was passed, as upon a criminal; it passed through all men, as an infectious disease that none escape. In proof of our union with Adam, and our part in his first transgression, observe, that sin prevailed in the world, for many ages before the giving of the law by Moses. And death reigned in that long time, not only over adults who wilfully sinned, but also over multitudes of infants, which shows that they had fallen in Adam under condemnation, and that the sin of Adam extended to all his posterity. He was a figure or type of Him that was to come as Surety of a new covenant, for all who are related to Him.