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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 produces
perseverance;
4 and
perseverance, proven
character; and
proven character,
hope;
5 and
hope doesn’t
disappoint us,
because God’s love
has been poured
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 good
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, 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 followed 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, many
will be made
righteous.
20 The
law came in
that the trespass
might abound; but
where sin abounded,
grace abounded
more exceedingly,
21 that
as sin reigned in
death, even so
grace might reign
through righteousness
to eternal life
through Jesus
Christ our Lord.