1 T herefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Therefore, since we are justified ( acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us have '> enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

2 b y whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Through Him also we have access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

3 A nd not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Moreover let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.

4 a nd patience, experience; and experience, hope:

And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character produces joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.

5 a nd hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.

6 F or when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

While we were yet in weakness, at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly.

7 F or scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even dare to die.

8 B ut God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But God shows and clearly proves His love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

9 M uch more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Therefore, since we are now justified ( acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ’s blood, how much more we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God.

10 F or if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more, now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin’s dominion) through His '> resurrection] life.

11 A nd not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy reconciliation.

12 W herefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, '> no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.

13 ( for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law.

14 N evertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not themselves transgress as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come '> the former destructive, the Latter saving].

15 B ut not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for many.

16 A nd not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one sin. For the sentence of one brought condemnation, whereas the free gift many transgressions brings justification ( an act of righteousness).

17 F or if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

18 T herefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Well then, as one man’s trespass to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men.

19 F or as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him).

20 M oreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

But then Law came in, to expand and increase the trespass. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded,

21 t hat as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

So that, as sin has reigned in death, grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord.