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