1. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2. through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and so we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3. Not only so, but we also boast in tribulation, knowing that tribulation produces patience,
4. patience produces character, and character produces hope.
5. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
6. While we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7. Rarely for a righteous man will one die. Yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.
8. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9. How much more then, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from wrath through Him.
10. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.
11. Furthermore, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12. Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death has spread to all men, because all have sinned.
13. For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not counted when there is no law.