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 this, 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 who 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. Yet
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.
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