1 ف َبِما أنَّنا قَدْ تَبَرَّرنا بِالإيمانِ، فَقَدْ صارَ لَنا سَلامٌ مَعَ اللهِ بِرَبِّنا يَسُوعَ المَسِيحِ.

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 ك َما صارَ لَنا امتِيازُ الدُّخُولِ بِالإيمانِ إلَى هَذِهِ النِّعمَةِ الَّتِي نَعيشُ فِيها الآنَ. وَنَحنُ مُبتَهِجُونَ لِأنَّنا نَتَوَقَّعُ المُشارَكَةَ فِي مَجدِ اللهِ.

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 و َلَيسَ هَذا فَقَطْ، بَلْ إنَّنا نَبتَهِجُ حَتَّى فِي ضِيقاتِنا. لِأنَّنا نَعرِفُ أنَّ الضِّيقَ يُنتِجُ صَبراً،

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 و َالصَّبرُ بُرْهانُ القُوَّةِ. وَهَذا البُرْهانُ يُنتِجُ رَجاءً.

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

5 و َالرَّجاءُ لَنْ يَخذِلَنا، لِأنَّ اللهَ قَدْ سَكَبَ مَحَبَّتَهُ فِي قُلُوبِنا بِالرُّوحِ القُدُسِ الَّذِي أُعطِيَ لَنا.

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 ف َحِينَ كُنّا عاجِزِينَ عَنْ تَخلِيصِ أنفُسِنا، ماتَ المَسِيحُ فِي الوَقتِ المُناسِبِ مِنْ أجلِنا نَحنُ الأشرارَ.

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

7 ي َصعُبُ أنْ يُضَحِّيَ إنسانٌ بِحَياتِهِ حَتَّىْ مِنْ أجلِ إنسانٍ صالِحْ، وَرُبَّما يَتَجَرَّأُ وَيَمُوتُ مِنْ أجلِ إنسانٍ صالِحٍ.

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 ل َكِنَّ اللهَ أظهَرَ مَحَبَّتَهُ لَنا، إذْ ماتَ المَسِيحُ مِنْ أًجلِنا وَنَحنُ بَعدُ فِي خَطايانا.

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 ف َبِما أنَّنا تَبَرَّرنا بِدَمِ يَسُوعَ، نَكُونُ أكثَرَ يَقِيناً الآنَ بِأنَّنا سَنَنجُو مِنْ غَضَبِ اللهِ.

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 ف َإنْ كُنّا، وَنَحنُ أعداءٌ للهِ، قَدْ تَصالَحنا مَعَهُ بِمَوتِ ابنِهِ، فَما أعظَمَ الخَلاصَ الَّذِي سَنَتَمَتَّعُ بِهِ الآنَ بِحَياةِ ابنِهِ، وَنَحنُ مُصالَحُونَ!

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 ب َلْ وَنَبتَهِجُ أيضاً بِاللهِ، بِرَبِّنا يَسُوعَ المَسِيحِ، الَّذَي حَصَلنا عَلَى المُصالَحَةِ مِنْ خِلالِهِ. الموت بآدَمُ وَالحياة بِالمسيح

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 ل َقَدْ دَخَلَتِ الخَطِيَّةُ إلَى العالَمِ مِنْ خِلالِ إنسانٍ واحِدٍ، وَبِالخَطِيَّةِ دَخَلَ المَوتُ. وَهَكَذا سادَ المَوتُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ النّاسِ، لِأنَّ الجَمِيعَ قَدْ أخطَأُوا.

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 ك انَتِ الخَطِيَّةُ فِي العالَمِ قَبلَ إعلانِ الشَّرِيعَةِ. لَكِنَّ الخَطِيَّةَ لا تُحسَبُ إنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ هُناكَ شَرِيعَةٌ.

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 إ لّا أنَّ المَوتَ قَدْ سادَ عَلَى النّاسِ مُنذُ زَمَنِ آدَمَ إلَى زَمَنِ مُوسَى. وَقَدْ سادَ المَوتُ حَتَّى عَلَى الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُخطِئُوا عَلَى طَرِيقَةِ آدَمَ الَّذِي خالَفَ وَصِيَّةَ اللهَ. وَآدَمُ صُورَةٌ لِلمَسِيحِ الآتِي.

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 و َلَكِنَّ عَطِيَّةَ اللهِ المَجّانِيَّةَ لَمْ تَكُنْ كَخَطِيَّةِ آدَمَ. لِأنَّهُ إنْ ماتَ جَمِيعُ النّاسِ بِسَبَبِ خَطِيَّةِ ذَلِكَ الواحِدِ، فَالأولَى أنْ تَفِيضَ نِعمَةُ اللهِ، وَالعَطِيَّةُ الَّتِي جاءَتْ عَلَى جَمِيعِ النّاسِ بِنِعمَةِ الواحِدِ يَسُوعَ.

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 ف َنَتِيجَةُ عَطِيَّةِ اللهِ لَيسَتْ كَنَتِيجَةِ خَطِيَّةِ ذَلِكَ الإنسانِ الواحِدِ. فَقَدْ جاءَ الحُكمُ المُؤَدِّي إلَى الدَّينُونَةِ بَعدَ خَطِيَّةٍ واحِدَةٍ. أمّا العَطِيَّةُ المُؤَدِّيَةُ إلَى البِرِّ فَجاءَتْ بَعدَ خَطايا كَثِيرَةٍ.

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 ف َبِما أنَّ المَوتَ قَدْ مَلَكَ عَلَى النّاسِ مِنْ خِلالِ ذَلِكَ الواحِدِ: آدَمَ، وَبِسَبَبِ مَعصِيَتِهِ الواحِدَةِ، فَالأولَى أنَّ الَّذِينَ يَتَمَتَّعُونَ بِفَيضِ النِّعمَةِ وَعَطِيَّةِ البِرِّ سَيَملُكونَ فِي الحَياةِ الأبَدِيَّةِ مِنْ خِلالِ الواحِدِ: يَسُوعَ المَسِيحِ.

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 ل َقَدْ جاءَتِ الدَّينُونَةُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ النّاسِ بِمَعصِيَةٍ واحِدَةٍ. وَكَذَلِكَ جاءَ البِرُّ المُؤَدِّي إلَى الحَياةِ الأبَدِيَّةِ لِجَمِيعِ النّاسِ بِعَمَلٍ بارٍّ واحِدٍ.

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 ف َكَما صارَ الكَثِيرُونَ خُطاةً بِمَعصِيَةِ إنسانٍ واحِدٍ، سَيُجعَلُ الكَثِيرُونَ أبراراً بِطاعَةِ الواحِدِ.

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 و َأمّا الشَّرِيعَةُ فَقَدْ جاءَتْ لِكَي يَزدادَ التَّعَدِّي عَلَى الشَّرِيعَةِ! لَكِنْ حَيثُ تَزدادُ الخَطِيَّةُ، تَزدادُ نِعمَةُ اللهِ أكثَرَ.

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 ف َكَما مَلَكَتِ الخَطِيَّةُ مِنْ خِلالِ المَوتِ، كَذَلِكَ قَدَّمَ اللهُ نِعمَتَهُ لِكَي تَملُكَ بِتَبريرِنا، فَتُؤَدِّيَ إلَى الحَياةِ الأبَدِيَّةِ بِيَسُوعَ المَسِيحِ رَبِّنا.

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.