1 Therefore, since we have mercifully been held to be righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, 2 through whom we have received, too, the right to approach God, access into this gift by which we stand firm and the greatness of which we continually exalt and speak highly, on the basis of the hope of the glory of God. 3 But that’s not all. We also speak in high and exalted terms of our trials and sufferings, knowing that suffering results in endurance, 4 and that endurance results in greater proven character and genuineness, and that greater character and genuineness results in even greater confidence and hope. 5 Hope, moreover, isn’t going to disappoint us, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6 The Messiah, you see, while we were still helpless, at the appointed time died for the sake of the ungodly. 7 It is hard enough to imagine someone dying for an upright person; for a good a person, maybe, someone might just stir up enough courage to die. 8 God, however, shows the depth of his love for us in the fact that the Messiah himself died for us when? While we were still sinners! 9 How much more surely, therefore, since we have now mercifully been held to be righteous on account of his blood, will we be saved through him from the earlier mentioned wrath? 10 For if, while we were his enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more surely, having been reconciled, will we experience further salvation through his life? 11 But that’s not all. We also exalt and speak highly of the acts of God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom, now, we have this gift of reconciliation received.

12 That is the reason why, just as it was through one man that sin came into the world, and through sin, death, in this way, too, death spread to all mankind, because all mankind sinned. 13 Indeed, it was before Torah was ever given that sin was in the world. Sin, however, is not itemized in terms of specific debts when there is no Torah. 14 Still, death held sway from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t an exact replica of the violation of specific command that resulted in death for Adam, who is a prototype of the one who was to come. 15 Just the opposite of Adam’s offense, however, is God’s gracious gift. If as a result of the one man’s offense, you see, the many have experienced death, how much more powerfully has the grace of God and his free gift, through the grace of the one man Jesus the Messiah, resulted for the many in a rich abundance of life? 16 Again, the result of God’s gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. Whereas judgment, you see, followed a single offense and resulted in condemnation, the gift followed many offenses and resulted in being regarded as righteous. 17 If, as a result of the one man’s offense, death began to hold sway because of that one man, how much more surely will those who now experience God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness, come to hold authority in life because of the one man, Jesus the Messiah?

18 So then, just as one offense+ resulted for all mankind in condemnation, so also one act of righteousness results for all mankind in a merciful and life-giving bestowal of righteous standing. 19 Indeed, just as through that one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Torah, moreover, for its part, came in alongside, in order to make the offense even more severe and intense by giving it specific definition. Where sin became more severe and intense, however, the gift was lavished all the more, 21 so that, just as sin held sway in death, so also the gift would hold sway through righteousness unto life in the coming age through Jesus the Messiah our Lord.