| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. | 1Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 2Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory. | 2through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God's glory. |
| 3We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. | 3Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, |
| 4And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. | 4and endurance, character, and character, hope. |
| 5And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. | 5And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. |
| 6When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. | 6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. |
| 7Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. | 7(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) |
| 8But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. | 8But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. |
| 9And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. | 9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God's wrath. |
| 10For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. | 10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life? |
| 11So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. Adam and Christ Contrasted | 11Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation. |
| 12When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. | 12So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned-- |
| 13Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. | 13for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law. |
| 14Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come. | 14Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed. |
| 15But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. | 15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! |
| 16And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. | 16And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification. |
| 17For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ. | 17For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ! |
| 18Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. | 18Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people. |
| 19Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous. | 19For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous. |
| 20God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. | 20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, |
| 21So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 21so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
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