Here’s a two-voice readers’ theatre setting of Romans 5: 12-19, from The Voice translation of Scripture. For an alternative setting, see this post.
Readers’
Theatre: Romans 5: 12-19
Consider this:
sin entered our world through one man, Adam;
and through sin,
death followed in hot pursuit.
Death spread
rapidly to infect all people on the earth
as they engaged
in sin.
Before God gave the law, sin existed, but there was no way to account for
it.
Outside the law,
how could anyone be charged and found guilty of sin?
Still, death plagued all humanity from Adam to Moses,
even those whose sin was of a different sort than Adam’s.
You see, in
God’s plan,
Adam was a
prototype of the One who comes to usher in a new day.
But the free grace bears no resemblance to Adam’s crime
that brings a death sentence to all of humanity;
in fact, it is
quite the opposite.
For if the one man’s sin brings death to so many,
how much more does the gift of God’s radical grace extend to humanity
since Jesus the Anointed offered His generous gift.
His free gift is
nothing like the scourge of the first man’s sin.
The judgment
that fell because of one false step brought condemnation,
but the free
gift following countless offenses results in a favorable verdict—
not guilty!
If one man’s sin
brought a reign of death—that’s Adam’s legacy—
how much more
will those who receive grace in abundance
and the free
gift of redeeming justice
reign in life by
means of one other man—Jesus the Anointed.
So here is the result:
as one man’s sin brought about condemnation and punishment for all
people,
so one man’s act of faithfulness makes all of us right with God
and brings us to new life.
Just as through
one man’s defiant obedience
every one of us
were made sinners,
so through the
willing obedience of the one
many of us will
be made right.
~ taken from The Voice Bible translation
of Scripture, copyright © 2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. http://www.hearthevoice.com/
