The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

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- Chapter 5 -

God has put us right with himself because we trust in our Lord Jesus Christ. So we are now at peace with God.

Because of what Messiah has done for us, it is as if God has opened up a door for us to go to where he will be kind to us. So we rejoice because we are confidently expecting that God will gladly share his greatness with us.

When we suffer because we are joined to Messiah, we also rejoice because we know that when we are suffering, we are learning to endure things patiently.

And we know that when we endure suffering patiently, God approves of us. And when we know that God approves of us, we confidently expect that he will do great things for us.

And we are very confident that we will receive the things that we wait for, because God loves us very much. His Holy Spirit, whom he gave to us, causes us to understand how much God loves us.

Christ’s Sacrifice for the Ungodly

(John 3:1–21)

When we were unable to save ourselves, it was Messiah who, at the time that God chose, died for us people, although we were not honoring God at all.

Rarely will anyone die for another person, even if that person were righteous, although for a good person perhaps someone might be courageous enough to die.

Nevertheless, as for God, the way he showed us that he loves us is that Messiah died for us while we were still rebelling against God.

So it is even more certain that Messiah will save us from God’s anger about sin since we are right with God because Messiah died for us and shed his blood for our sins.

Even when we were his enemies God made us to be his friends because his Son died for us. Since Messiah is alive again, it is even more certain that Messiah will save us.

And that is not all! Now we also rejoice because we have been made friends with God, because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

(Genesis 3:1–7)

All people are sinful because Adam, the first man whom God created, sinned long ago. Because he sinned, he eventually died. So all people who have lived since then became sinners, and they all die.

People in the world sinned before God gave his law to Moses but there was no way to recognize sin against that law.

But we know that from the time when Adam lived until the time when Moses lived, all people sinned, and that they died as a consequence. Everyone died, even those who did not break a direct command from God as Adam did. Adam’s sin affected all people, just like what Messiah did, the one who came later, also affects all people.

But the gift that God gives is not like Adam’s sin. Because Adam sinned, everybody dies. But because another single man, Jesus Christ, died for us all, God kindly offers us this gift of everlasting life, although we do not deserve it.

And there is another way in which God’s gift is different from Adam’s sin. Because Adam sinned, all people after him have sinned, and so God declared that all people deserve to be punished. But as a kind gift, God offers to put us right with himself.

All people die because of what one man, Adam, did. But now many of us experience that God has kindly given us a very great gift, which we do not deserve, and he has put us right with himself. It is also very certain that we will rule with Messiah on earth. This will happen because of what one man, Jesus Christ, did for us.

So, because one man, Adam, disobeyed God’s law, all people deserve to be punished. Similarly, because one man, Jesus, acted righteously by obeying God while he lived and died, God offers to put everyone right with himself, for them to live forever.

It was because one person, Adam, disobeyed God that many people became sinners. Similarly, it is because one person, Jesus, obeyed God when he died that he will put many right with himself.

God gave his law to Moses in order that people might realize how greatly they had sinned; but as people sinned more, God continued to act even more kindly toward them in a way that they did not deserve.

He did that in order that, unlike people die because they sin, his kind gift might put them right with himself. Then they can live forever because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for them.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

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.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Christ’s Sacrifice for the Ungodly

(John 3:1–21)

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

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.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

(Genesis 3:1–7)

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

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.

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.

The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.

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.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.