Peace with God Through Faith

¹aTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, bwe1 have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²Through him we have also cobtained access by faith2 into this grace din which we stand, and ewe3 rejoice4 in hope of the glory of God. ³Not only that, but we frejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering gproduces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵and hhope does not put us to shame, because God's love ihas been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

⁶For jwhile we were still weak, at the right time kChrist died for the ungodly. ⁷For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— ⁸but lGod shows his love for us in that mwhile we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹Since, therefore, nwe have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from othe wrath of God. ¹⁰For if pwhile we were enemies qwe were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by rhis life. ¹¹More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received sreconciliation.

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

¹²Therefore, just as tsin came into the world through one man, and udeath through sin, and vso death spread to all men5 because wall sinned— ¹³for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but xsin is not counted where there is no law. ¹⁴Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not ylike the transgression of Adam, zwho was a type of athe one who was to come.

¹⁵But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for bmany. ¹⁶And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For cthe judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought djustification. ¹⁷For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness ereign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Therefore, as one trespass6 led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness7 leads to justification and life for fall men. ¹⁹For as by the one man's gdisobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's hobedience the many will be made righteous. ²⁰Now ithe law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, jgrace abounded all the more, ²¹so that, kas sin reigned in death, lgrace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.