¹Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ²through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we exult in the hope of the glory of God. ³And not only so, but we also exult in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces patience; ⁴and patience, proven character; and proven character, hope. ⁵Now hope does not cause shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by holy spirit which has been given to us. ⁶For while we were still weak, Christ at the due time died for the ungodly. ⁷For scarcely will anyone die for a righteous person. Yet for a good person someone might perhaps even dare to die. ⁸But God commends his own love to us, because while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹So having been all the more justified now by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath by him. ¹⁰For if when we were hostile, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life! ¹¹And not only so, but we also exult in God through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. ¹²This is why, just as sin came into the world through one man, and through sin, death, so also death passed on to all men, seeing that all have sinned, ¹³for even before the law sin was in the world, but sin is not indicted when there is no law. ¹⁴But death reigned from Adam to Moses, including over those who had not sinned in a similar way to the transgression of Adam, who is a depiction of the one to come. ¹⁵But the act of grace is not as the transgression is. For if in the transgression of one person, many have died, how much more has the grace of God, and the gift in grace which is from one man Jesus Christ, abounded to many! ¹⁶And the gift is not just subsequent to one person having sinned. For the judgment on one person led to condemnation, but the act of grace ensuing from many transgressions led to justification. ¹⁷For if death started reigning by the transgression of one man – through the one – how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through one man, Jesus Christ! ¹⁸So then, as by one transgression sentence came on all men leading to condemnation, so also by one righteous act the gift came to all men leading to justification which is life. ¹⁹For as through the disobedience of one man many were established as sinners, so also through the obedience of one many will be established as righteous. ²⁰Then the law came along, so that transgression should abound, but where sin abounded, grace superabounded, ²¹so that as sin reigned by death, so also grace might reign through righteousness leading to age-abiding life through Jesus Christ our Lord.