1 Therefore being by , we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in also: knowing that worketh ;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And maketh not ashamed; because the of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without , in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet , died for us.
9 Much more then, being now by his , we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were to God by the of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the .
12 Wherefore, as by one man entered into the world, and by sin; and so passed upon all men, for that all have :
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but is not imputed when there is no .
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s , who is the of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the of one the free gift came upon all men unto of life.
19 For as by one man’s many were made sinners, so by the of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through unto by Jesus Christ our Lord.