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.