5:1  Therefore, having received justification by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:2  through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.

5:3   And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;

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

5:5  and hope does not disappoint, because God has poured out His love within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who He gave us.

5:6  For while we still felt helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

5:8  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we still lived as sinners, Christ died for us.

5:9  Much more then, having now received justification by His blood, we shall receive salvation from the wrath of God through Him.

5:10  For if while we acted as God's enemies we received reconciliation with God through the death of His Son, much more, having received reconciliation, we shall receive salvation through His life.

5:11   And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

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

5:13  for until the Law sin existed in the world, but we did not impute sin when no law existed.

5:14  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who serves as a type of Him who would come later.

5:15  But the free gift does not resemble the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

5:16  The gift does not resemble that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.

5:17  For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

5:18  So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

5:19  For as through the one man's disobedience the many became made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will become righteous.

5:20   The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

5:21  so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.