Chapter 5
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 towards 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 judgement 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 .