Romans
5
- Therefore, since we have been justified
through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- through whom we have gained access by faith
into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory
of God.
- Not only so, but we also rejoice in our
sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
- perseverance, character; and character,
hope.
- And hope does not disappoint us, because
God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has
given us.
- You see, at just the right time, when we
were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous
man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
- But God demonstrates his own love for us
in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Since we have now been justified by his
blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him
!
- For if, when we were God's enemies, we were
reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been
reconciled, shall we be saved through his life !
- Not only is this so, but we also rejoice
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
- Therefore, just as sin entered the world
through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all
men, because all sinned --
- for before the law was given, sin was in
the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
- Nevertheless, death reigned from the time
of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking
a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
- But the gift is not like the trespass. For
if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace
and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow
to the many !
- Again, the gift of God is not like the result
of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation,
but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
- For if, by the trespass of the one man,
death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's
abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life
through the one man, Jesus Christ.
- Consequently, just as the result of one
trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness
was justification that brings life for all men.
- For just as through the disobedience of
the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the
one man the many will be made righteous.
- The law was added so that the trespass might
increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- so that, just as sin reigned in death, so
also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
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