Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also
obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we
rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice
in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and
endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope
does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into
our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for
the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous
person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to
die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been
justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the
wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to
God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled,
shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in
God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received reconciliation.
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—for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given,
but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned
from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the
transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
But the free gift is not like the trespass. 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. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's
sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation,
but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that
one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one
man Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so
one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all
men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made
sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made
righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where
sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned
in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
