[1] Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ; [2] through whom we also have our access by faith into
this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. [3]
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering
works perseverance; [4] and perseverance, proven character; and proven
character, hope: [5] and hope doesn`t disappoint us, because God`s love has
been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to
us. [6] For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the
ungodly. [7] For one will hardly die for a righteous man. For perhaps for a
righteous person someone would even dare to die. [8] But God commends his
own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[9] Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from
God`s wrath through him. [10] For if, while we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being
reconciled, we will be saved by his life. [11] Not only so, but we also
rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation. [12] Therefore, as sin entered into the world
through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men,
because all sinned. [13] For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin
is not charged when there is no law. [14] Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren`t like Adam`s
disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. [15] But the
free gift isn`t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the
many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the
one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. [16] The gift is not as through
one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free
gift came of many trespasses to justification. [17] For if by the trespass
of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who
receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in
life through the one, Jesus Christ. [18] So then as through one trespass,
all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men
were justified to life. [19] For as through the one man`s disobedience many
were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be
made righteous. [20] The law came in besides, that the trespass might
abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly; [21]
that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
