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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

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Romans 5

        ¹Therefore, having been justified [or, declared righteous] by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ²through whom also we have the access [or, privilege to enter] by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast [or, rejoice] in the hope [or, confident expectation] of the glory of God! ³But not only [this], but we also boast [or, take pride] in afflictions, knowing that affliction produces patient endurance, ⁴and patient endurance proven character, and proven character hope [or, confident expectation], ⁵and hope [or, confident expectation] does not disappoint [us], because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit, the One having been given to us!

            ⁶For Christ, while we were still weak [or, helpless], at the right time, died on behalf of the impious [or, ungodly]. ⁷For scarcely [or, only rarely] will anyone die on behalf of a righteous [person]; for perhaps someone even dares [or, might be prepared] to die on behalf of the good [person]. ⁸But God demonstrates His own love to [or, for] us, [in] that us still being sinful [people] [fig., while we were still sinners], Christ died on our behalf!

            ⁹Much more then, having been justified [or, declared righteous] now by His blood, we will be saved from the wrath through Him. ¹⁰For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by His life. ¹¹But not only [this], but we also boast [or, rejoice] in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation.

            ¹²For this reason, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death; and thus death passed through [or, extended] to all people, for that [or, because] all sinned; ¹³for until [the] Law sin was in the world, but sin is not accounted [or, imputed] [there] not being law [or, when [there] is no law]. ¹⁴But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even on the ones not having sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the coming One.

            ¹⁵But not as the offense so also [is] the gracious gift; for if by the offense of the one [man] the many died, much more the grace of God and the free gift by grace of the one Man Jesus Christ abounded to the many. ¹⁶And not as through one [man] having sinned [is] the gift; for on the one hand the judgment from one [offense resulted] in condemnation, on the other hand the gracious gift from many offences [resulted] in justification [or, a declared righteousness]. ¹⁷For if by the offense of the one [man] death reigned through that one [man], much more the ones receiving the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness in life will reign through the one [Man], Jesus Christ.

            ¹⁸So, consequently, as through one offense [judgment came] to all people [resulting] in condemnation, so also [the gift came] through one righteous deed to all people [resulting] in justification [or, a declared righteousness] of life. ¹⁹For even as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted [or, caused to be] sinful, so also through the obedience of the one [Man], the many will be constituted righteous. ²⁰But [the] Law entered alongside so that the offense should abound, but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded, ²¹so that even as sin reigned by death, so also grace reigns through righteousness to eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Scripture taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament of the Holy Bible: Third Edition.
Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry (www.zeolla.org/christian).
Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 by Gary F. Zeolla.

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