Then being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we glory on the hope of the glory of God.
3And not only so, but we glory also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,
4and patience works out proven character; and proven character, hope.
5And the hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us;
6for we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for ungodly ones.
7For with difficulty one will die for a just one, (for perhaps one even dares to die for the sake of the good one),
8but God commends His love to us in this, that we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9Much more then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him.
10For if while being enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life;
11and not only so, but also glorying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation.
12Because of this, even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.
13For sin was in the world until Law, but sin is not charged where there is no law;
14but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even on those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming One.
15But the free gift is not also like the deviation. For if by the deviation of the one the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, did abound to the many.
16And the gift is not as by one having sinned; for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many deviations to justification.
17For if by the deviation of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who are receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall rule in life by the One, Jesus Christ.
18So then, as through one deviation it was toward all men to condemnation, so also through one righteous act toward all men to justification of life.
19For as through the one man's disobedience the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many shall be constituted righteous.
20But Law came in besides, that the deviation might abound. But where sin abounded, grace much more abounded,
21that as sin ruled in death, so also grace might rule through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.