5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God.

5:2 By faith we also have our access into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

5:3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

5:4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

5:5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

5:6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time God showed mercy to the ungodly.

5:7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.

5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, he showed us mercy.

5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his mercy, we will be saved from God’s wrath.

5:10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his mercy.

5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.

5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience.

5:15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift of his mercy abound to the many.

5:16 The gift of God is not like the trespass; for the trespass of one brought a judgment, but God’s free gift followed many trespasses to forgiveness for those who repent.

5:17 For if by the trespass of the one, death entered the world, so much more will those who receive the abundance of God’s grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life, through the guidance brought by Jesus the Messiah, son of Mary.

5:18 So then as one trespass led many into error, even so through one act of righteousness many are guided to life.

5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were led into sin, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be guided to righteousness.

5:20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,

5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life from God, our Lord.