1 Having been justified, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about endurance,
4 and endurance, tested character; and tested character, hope;
5 and hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6 For when we were still without strength, Christ in due season died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die; yet perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die.
8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more, then, having now been justified by his blood, we will be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death passed to all men, because all sinned;
13 for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not as the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.
16 And the gift is not as it was through the one who sinned; for the judgment came from one offense to condemnation, but the free gift came from many trespasses to justification.
17 For if by the trespass of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
18 So then, as through one trespass condemnation came to all men, so also through one righteous act justification of life came to all men.
19 For as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one the many will be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law came in alongside, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,
21 that as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.