Romans 5
1 Therefore, having been declared righteous by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Through him we have also gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only that: we also rejoice in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance.
4 Endurance produces tested character, and tested character produces hope.
5 And hope does not 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 still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For someone will hardly die for a righteous person; though for a good person, perhaps someone might even dare to die.
8 But God proves his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more, then, now that we have been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from wrath.
10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11 And not only that: we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people, because all sinned.
13 For sin was in the world until the Law, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a pattern of the one who was to come.
15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the trespass of one man, much more have God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, overflowed to the many.
16 And the gift is not like what came through the one who sinned: the judgment from one trespass led to condemnation, but the gift from many trespasses leads to acquittal.
17 For if death reigned through that one man because of one man’s trespass, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
18 So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all people, so one righteous act brings life-giving justification for all people.
19 For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous.
20 The Law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more.
21 This was so that, just as sin reigned in death, grace might also reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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