Romans 5

(The past few weeks, I have been reading through the book of Romans, which is by far my favorite book in the Bible. Although I by no means understand it completely, God is good and continually opens my eyes to new truths hidden in the text. Romans 5 has been gnawing at me for a while. I read it and re-read it, and God show me something amazing every time. Below is my translation of Paul's chapter. I hope God uses it to show you something amazing too!)


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¹Therefore, having been justified through faith, we have made peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ, ²through whom we have also gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we take delight in the hope of the glory of God. ³Not only so, but we also delight in our sufferings because we know that our sufferings will lead to perseverance, ⁴perseverance leads to character, and character leads to hope. ⁵And hope will never disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out and into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.

⁶For just at the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the wicked. ⁷Very rarely will someone die for a righteous person, though for a good person, someone might just dare to die. ⁸But God demonstrated and demonstrates still His love for us in this: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹Therefore, now that we have been justified through His blood, how much more will we be saved through Him from God’s wrath? ¹⁰For if, even though we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of God’s Son, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved through His life? ¹¹Not only is this so, but we now and forevermore delight in God through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received reconciliation. ¹²Therefore, because sin- and death through sin- entered into the world through one man, which in turn passed death to all people because all have sinned, ¹³this means that before the Law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken to account without the Law. ¹⁴Even still, death reigned from Adam until Moses unchecked, even over those who did not sin in the same way as Adam, who is made in the likeness of the One to come. ¹⁵But the free gift is not like the offense. For if many died due to one man’s offense, how much more did God’s grace, and the gift in grace- which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ- overflow to so many! ¹⁶And the gift of God shall not be decided because of the one man having sinned, for indeed that judgment was one of condemnation. Indeed, the free gift of God was given after many transgressions, and it led to justification. ¹⁷Therefore, if it was that by the sin of the one man, death reigned on account of that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of God’s righteousness reign in life through the One Man, Jesus Christ. ¹⁸Therefore, just as through the sin of one man all were condemned, so also through the One’s righteous act there was found justification of life for all. ¹⁹For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made into sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be considered as righteous. ²⁰The Law was added so that sin might abound. But where sin increased, grace increased so much more, ²¹so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace could reign through righteousness to life everlasting through Jesus Christ, our Lord.