1 H aving been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward 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 t hrough whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the 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, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

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 the endurance, experience; and the 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 the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to 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 in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

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 any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth 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 a nd God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die 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, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

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, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in 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, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

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 b ecause of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

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 f or till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not 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 b ut the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.

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 the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the 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 through one who did sin the free gift, for the judgment indeed of one to condemnation, but the gift of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,'

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 the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the 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 S o, then, as through one offence to all men to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' to all men to 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 through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted 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 A nd law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

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 even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through 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.