Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 5
{5:1} Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ; {5:2} 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. {5:3} Not only this, but we also rejoice in our
sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; {5:4} and
perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: {5:5} 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. {5:6} For
while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
{5:7} For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a
righteous person someone would even dare to die. {5:8} But God
commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
{5:9} Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be
saved from God's wrath through him. {5:10} 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.
{5:11} Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
{5:12} Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and
death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
{5:13} For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged
when there is no law. {5:14} 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. {5:15}
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. {5:16} 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. {5:17} 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. {5:18} So then as through one trespass, all men were
condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were
justified to life. {5:19} 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. {5:20} The law came in besides, that the
trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more
exceedingly; {5:21} that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might
reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
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