Romans 5:6–15

⁶You see, at just the right time,^s when we were still powerless,^t Christ died for the ungodly.^{u 7}Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.^v

⁹Since we have now been justified^w by his blood,^x how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath^y through him! ¹⁰For if, while we were God’s enemies,^z we were reconciled^a to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!^{b 11}Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.^c

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

¹²Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,^d and death through sin,^e and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned^f—

¹³To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.^{g 14}Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam,^h who is a pattern of the one to come.ⁱ

¹⁵But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man,^j how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ,^k overflow to the many!