1So then, since we have been made right with God by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Through him we have also been brought by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
3And not only that, but we also glory in our troubles. For we know that trouble produces patience,
4and patience produces experience, and experience produces hope.
5And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7It is rare for anyone to die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
8But God shows his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9So how much more, now that we have been made right with God by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10For if, when we were enemies, we were brought back to God by the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are brought back, we shall be saved by his life.
11And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have now received the atonement.
12So then, sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin. And so death spread to all people, because all have sinned.
13(For sin was in the world before the law was given. But sin is not charged against anyone when there is no law.
14Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the same way that Adam broke God's command. Adam is a picture of the one who was to come.
15But the free gift is not like the offence. For if many died through the offence of one man, how much more did the grace of God, and the gift that comes by grace, overflow to many through the one man, Jesus Christ.
16And the gift is not like what came through the one man who sinned. For the judgment came from one offence and brought condemnation, but the free gift came after many offences and brought righteousness.
17For if death reigned through one man because of that one man's offence, how much more will those who receive the overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.)
18So then, as one offence brought judgment and condemnation to all people, in the same way one act of righteousness brought the free gift to all people, and with it the righteousness that gives life.
19For as many were made sinners by one man's disobedience, so many will be made righteous by the obedience of one man.
20The law came in as well, so that the offence might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased much more.
21So that, as sin has reigned and brought death, in the same way grace might reign through righteousness and bring eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.