Romans 5:6–15

Those Declared Righteous Are Reconciled

⁶For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, ^cChrist died for the ungodly. ⁷For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. ⁸But God proves ^dHis own love for us ^ein that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us! ⁹Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, ^fwe will be saved through Him from wrath. ^g10For if, while we were enemies, ^hwe were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life! ⁱ¹¹And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have now received this reconciliation through Him. ^j

Death through Adam and Life through Christ

¹²Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, ^kand death through sin, ^lin this way death spread to all men, ^mbecause all sinned. ⁿ¹³In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law. ^o14Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. ^pHe is a prototype ^qof the Coming One. ^r

¹⁵But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, ^sJesus Christ.