Romans 5:5–21

⁵ⁱNow hope does not disappoint, ^jbecause the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Christ in Our Place

⁶For when we were still without strength, ⁴in due time ^kChrist died for the ungodly. ⁷For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. ⁸But ^lGod demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹Much more then, having now been justified ^mby His blood, we shall be saved ⁿfrom wrath through Him. ¹⁰For ^oif when we were enemies ^pwe were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved ^qby His life. ¹¹And not only that, but we also ^rrejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

¹²Therefore, just as ^sthrough one man sin entered the world, and ^tdeath through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—¹³(For until the law sin was in the world, but ^usin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, ^vwho is a type of Him who was to come. ¹⁵But the free gift is not like the ⁵offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded ^wto many. ¹⁶And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many ⁶offenses resulted in justification. ¹⁷For if by the one man’s ⁷offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

¹⁸Therefore, as through ⁸one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through ^xone ⁹Man’s righteous act the free gift came ^yto all men, resulting in justification of life. ¹⁹For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by ^zone Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

²⁰Moreover ^athe law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace ^babounded much more, ²¹so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.