Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2 He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!
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through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
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Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
4 endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
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and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
5 This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.
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and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to us.
6 For when we were still helpless, Christ died for the wicked at the time that God chose.
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For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person.
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For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8 But God has shown us how much he loves us - it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!
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But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 By his blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger!
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Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
10 We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!
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For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11 But that is not all; we rejoice because of what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has now made us God's friends.
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Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned.
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Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
13 There was sin in the world before the Law was given; but where there is no law, no account is kept of sins.
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For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14 But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, death ruled over all human beings, even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam did when he disobeyed God's command. Adam was a figure of the one who was to come.
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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15 But the two are not the same, because God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his free gift to so many people through the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.
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But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 And there is a difference between God's gift and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the judgment of "Guilty"; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of "Not guilty!"
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The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
17 It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ.
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For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
18 So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life.
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So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19 And just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man.
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For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
20 Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.
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The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
21 So then, just as sin ruled by means of death, so also God's grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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