| Chapter 5
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| 1 | Therefore
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ: |
| 2 | By whom also we
have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of
the glory of God. |
| 3 | And
not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation
worketh patience; |
| 4 | And
patience, experience; and experience, hope: |
| 5 | And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. |
| 6 | For when we were yet without
strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. |
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7 | For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet
peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. |
| 8 | But God commendeth his love toward us,
in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
| 9 | Much more then, being now justified by
his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. |
| 10 | For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life. |
| 11
| And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received the atonement. |
| 12 | Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned: |
| 13 | (For until
the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. |
| 14 | Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to
come. |
| 15 | But not as the
offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be
dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man,
Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. |
| 16 | And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift:
for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many
offences unto justification. |
| 17
| For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which
receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one, Jesus Christ.) |
| 18 |
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all
men unto justification of life. |
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19 | For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. |
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20 | Moreover the law entered, that the offence might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: |
| 21 | That as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus
Christ our Lord. |
