| 1 | Therefore, since we are justified (
[a]acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to
[b]enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). |
| 2 | Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice
and
exult in our hope of experiencing
and
enjoying the glory of God. |
| 3 | Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult
and
triumph in our troubles
and
rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure
and
affliction
and
hardship produce patient
and
unswerving endurance. |
| 4 | And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of
[c]character (approved faith and
[d]tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of]
[e]joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. |
| 5 | Such hope never disappoints
or
deludes
or
shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. |
| 6 | While we were yet in weakness [powerless to help ourselves], at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly. |
| 7 | Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble
and
lovable
and
generous benefactor someone might even dare to die. |
| 8 | But God shows
and
clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us. |
| 9 | Therefore, since we are now justified (
[f]acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ’s blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation
and
wrath of God. |
| 10 | For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin’s dominion) through His [
[g]resurrection] life. |
| 11 | Not only so, but we also rejoice
and
exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection] through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received
and
enjoy [our] reconciliation. |
| 12 | Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [
[h]no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned. |
| 13 | [To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law [to transgress]. |
| 14 | Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse,
[i]the former destructive, the Latter saving]. |
| 15 | But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound
and
overflow to
and
for [the benefit of] many. |
| 16 | Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man’s] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (
[j]an act of righteousness). |
| 17 | For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). |
| 18 | Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal
and
right standing with God and life for all men. |
| 19 | For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear,
[k]heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him). |
| 20 | But then Law came in, [only] to expand
and
increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased
and
abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it
and
increased the more
and
superabounded, |
| 21 | So that, [just] as sin has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord. |
Cross references:
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Romans 5:11 : Jer. 9:24.
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Romans 5:14 : Gen. 5:5; 7:22; Deut. 34:5.
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