Shared Word Translation
Romans 5
Peace with God
Therefore, having been set right through trust, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also been given access into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. And not only this—we also boast in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces tested character, and tested character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
For while we were still weak, at the appointed time Christ died for the ungodly. Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might even dare to die. But God demonstrates God’s love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more surely then, having now been set right by his blood, will we be saved through him from wrath. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of the Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. And not only this, but we boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Adam and Christ
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one human being, and death through sin, and so death spread to all, because all sinned— for sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned where there is no law. Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sin was not like the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who was to come.
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the trespass of the one, much more surely have the grace of God and the gift in the grace of the one human being, Jesus Christ, overflowed for the many. And the gift is not like the effect of the one person’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass led to condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses leads to being set right. If, because of the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Therefore, just as through one trespass came condemnation for all human beings, so also through one righteous act came setting right that leads to life for all human beings. For just as through the disobedience of the one human being the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one the many will be made righteous.
Now the law came in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more, so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so also grace might exercise dominion through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.