Romans:5

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* SO then , since we have been accounted righteous by faith , let us have peace with God , through our Lord Jesus Christ . * Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God . * Not only so , but we also exult in trials , knowing that trial develops endurance , * and endurance develops a tested character , and a tested character develops hope , * and hope does not disappoint , for the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit granted to us . * For while we were still without strength Christ , at the due time , died for the unrighteous . * Hardly for a righteous man will any one die . For a good man some one perhaps may dare to die . * But God shows his own love to us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us . * Much more then , now that we have been pronounced righteous through his blood , shall we be saved from wrath by him . * For if while enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son , much more , now that we are reconciled , shall we be saved by his life . * And not only so , but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ , through whom we have now obtained the reconciliation . * Therefore as through one man sin entered the world , and through sin death entered , and so death spread to all men , since all sinned \'97 * for down to the time of the Law sin was in the world , and yet sin is not charged where there is no law ; * but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned like Adam , who is the type of him who was coming . * But the gracious gift is not like the fall . For if by the fall of the one the many sinned , much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to the many . * And the free gift was not like the sentence that came through one who sinned ; for the sentence came from one fall for condemnation , but the free gift was that men should be called righteous in spite of many falls . * For if by the fall of one man death reigned through that one , much more those who receive the abounding grace and the free gift of righteousness will reign in life through one , that is , through Jesus Christ . * As then through one fall sentence came upon all men and they were condemned ; so through one righteous act the free gift came to all men so that they are pronounced righteous and live . * For as by the disobedience of the one man the many were set down as sinners , so by the obedience of the one the many will be set down as righteous . * But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater ; but where sin became greater grace became greater still , * in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord .

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