1 T herefore, 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).

Now that we have been made right with God by putting our trust in Him, we have peace with Him. It is because of what our Lord Jesus Christ did for us.

2 T hrough 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.

By putting our trust in God, He has given us His loving-favor and has received us. We are happy for the hope we have of sharing the shining-greatness of God.

3 M oreover 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.

We are glad for our troubles also. We know that troubles help us learn not to give up.

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

When we have learned not to give up, it shows we have stood the test. When we have stood the test, it gives us hope.

5 S uch 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.

Hope never makes us ashamed because the love of God has come into our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who was given to us.

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

We were weak and could not help ourselves. Then Christ came at the right time and gave His life for all sinners.

7 N ow 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.

No one is willing to die for another person, but for a good man someone might be willing to die.

8 B ut 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.

But God showed His love to us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 T herefore, 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.

Now that we have been saved from the punishment of sin by the blood of Christ, He will save us from God’s anger also.

10 F or 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.

We hated God. But we were saved from the punishment of sin by the death of Christ. He has brought us back to God and we will be saved by His life.

11 N ot 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.

Not only that, we give thanks to God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have been brought back to God.

12 T herefore, 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.

This is what happened: Sin came into the world by one man, Adam. Sin brought death with it. Death spread to all men because all have sinned.

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

Sin was in the world before the Law was given. But sin is not held against a person when there is no Law.

14 Y et 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].

And yet death had power over men from the time of Adam until the time of Moses. Even the power of death was over those who had not sinned in the same way Adam sinned. Adam was like the One Who was to come.

15 B ut 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.

God’s free gift is not like the sin of Adam. Many people died because of the sin of this one man, Adam. But the loving-favor of God came to many people also. This gift came also by one Man Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

16 N or 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).

The free gift of God is not like Adam’s sin. God told Adam he was guilty because of his sin and through this one came sin and guilt. But the free gift makes men right with God. Through One, Christ, men’s sins are forgiven.

17 F or 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).

The power of death was over all men because of the sin of one man, Adam. But many people will receive His loving-favor and the gift of being made right with God. They will have power in life by Jesus Christ.

18 W ell 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.

Through Adam’s sin, death and hell came to all men. But another Man, Christ, by His right act makes men free and gives them life.

19 F or 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).

Adam did not obey God, and many people become sinners through him. Christ obeyed God and makes many people right with Himself.

20 B ut 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,

Sin spread when the Law was given. But where sin spread, God’s loving-favor spread all the more.

21 S o 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.

Sin had power that ended in death. Now, God’s loving-favor has power to make men right with Himself. It gives life that lasts forever. Our Lord Jesus Christ did this for us.