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Lord, from the dead, 004:025 who was surrendered to death because of
the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the
acquittal secured for us. 005:001 Standing then acquitted as the result
of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
005:002 through whom also, as the result of faith, we have obtained an
introduction into that state of favour with God in which we stand, and
we exult in hope of some day sharing in God's glory. 005:003 And not
only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that
suffering produces fortitude; 005:004 fortitude, ripeness of character;
and ripeness of character, hope; 005:005 and that this hope never
disappoints, because God's love for us floods our hearts through the
Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 005:006 For already, while we
were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.
005:007 Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a
simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps some
one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay down his life.
005:008 But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us
while we were still sinners. 005:009 If therefore we have now been
pronounced free from guilt through His blood, much more shall we be
delivered from God's anger through Him. 005:010 For if while we were
hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son,
it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain
salvation through Christ's life. 005:011 And not only so, but we also
exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have
now obtained that reconciliation. 005:012 What follows? This
comparison. Through one man sin entered into the world, and through
sin death, and so death passed to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned.
005:013 For prior to the Law sin was already in the world; only it is not
entered in the account against us when no Law exists. 005:014 Yet
Death reigned as king from Adam to Moses even over those who had
not sinned, as Adam did, against Law. And in Adam we have a type of
Him whose coming was still future. 005:015 But God's free gift
immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the
transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died,
infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift
given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ,
have been bestowed on the mass of mankind. 005:016 And it is not

with the gift as it was with the results of one individual's sin; for the
judgement which one individual provoked resulted in condemnation,
whereas the free gift after a multitude of transgressions results in
acquittal. 005:017 For if, through the transgression of the one
individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the
sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing
grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one
individual, Jesus Christ. 005:018 It follows then that just as the result of
a single transgression is a condemnation which extends to the whole
race, so also the result of a single decree of righteousness is a
life-giving acquittal which extends to the whole race. 005:019 For as
through the disobedience of the one individual the mass of mankind
were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the
mass of mankind will be constituted righteous. 005:020 Now Law was
brought in later on, so that transgression might increase. But where sin
increased, grace has overflowed; 005:021 in order that as sin has
exercised kingly sway in inflicting death, so grace, too, may exercise
kingly sway in bestowing a righteousness which results in the Life of
the Ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. 006:001 To what conclusion,
then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace
extended to us may be the greater? 006:002 No, indeed; how shall we
who have died to sin, live in it any longer? 006:003 And do you not
know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were
baptized into His death? 006:004 Well, then, we by our baptism were
buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from
among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an
entirely new life. 006:005 For since we have become one with Him by
sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His
resurrection. 006:006 This we