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UST ROM Chapter 5

5 Consequently, we should live peacefully with God by means of what our Lord Jesus the Messiah did for us because we have become righteous by trusting in Jesus. 2 Our Lord Jesus the Messiah also allows us to continually experience how kind God is by trusting in Jesus. We can confidently boast that we will share in God’s glorious status. 3 This is not the only thing about which we can confidently boast. Rather, we can also confidently boast about the painful things that we have experienced. We can do this because we know that a painful thing that we experience causes us to endure hardships better than before. 4 And being able to endure hardships results in God approving us. And when God approves us, we become more confident. 5 And when we become confident, we will not be disappointed. This is because the Holy Spirit has enabled us to deeply understand how much God loves us. God has given us this Holy Spirit.

6 In fact, while we were still helpless, Jesus the Messiah died for the sake of us impious people. God caused this to happen at just the right time. 7 Indeed, someone would rarely consider dying for the sake of a person who is righteous, although someone might possibly even bravely consider dying for the sake of a good person. 8 However, God shows his own love towards we believers by this fact: while we were still sinful, Jesus the Messiah died for our benefit! 9 Consequently, since the Messiah’s sacrificial death has already made us righteous, it is even more certain that he will rescue us when God finally punishes sinners! 10 Indeed, God’s Son Jesus died to reconcile us to God while we were still his enemies. Therefore, since Jesus has already reconciled us to God, it is even more certain that he will rescue us when God punishes sinners because he is alive again! 11 Now these are not the only things God does for us. Rather, we also boast about God by means of what our Lord Jesus the Messiah has done for us. Jesus has already reconciled us with God!

12 So then, sin started existing in the world because one man sinned, and living things started to die because he sinned. In the same way, everyone started dying as well, because everyone sins. 13 Indeed, people throughout the world sinned before God gave his laws to the Jews. However, God did not legally regard what they did as sinning, since those laws did not yet exist to identify what it means to sin. 14 However, everyone died from the time of the first man Adam until the time of Moses. Even those people died who did not sin by violating the same command God gave to Adam. Adam is like the person who would come later. 15 But what God has kindly given us is not the same as how Adam rejected God’s command. In fact, it is true that many people died because the one man Adam rejected God’s command. But how kind God is and that which God kindly gives through the one man Jesus the Messiah extend to many people and are much greater! 16 Yet, what God gives is not like what happened because the one man Adam sinned. This is true because, in fact, God judged everyone after the sinful thing that Adam did, which resulted in God condemning everyone. By contrast, what God kindly gave people after they rejected his commands many times resulted in God making them righteous. 17 Indeed, since everyone died because the one man Adam rejected God’s command, it is even more certain that those people who accept how abundantly kind God is and are those people whom he makes righteous will live in control of themselves. This will happen because of what Jesus the Messiah has done.

18 Therefore, in the way that God condemned everyone because Adam rejected God’s command, in the same way, God makes everyone righteous, which results in them living eternally, because of the righteous act that Jesus did. 19 Indeed, in the same way that people became sinful because the one man Adam disobeyed God, in the same way many people will become righteous because the one man Jesus obeyed God. 20 Yet God added his laws in order that people might reject his commands even more. Nevertheless, whenever people began to sin even more, then even more God showed how kind he is! 21 This happened so that God could be gracious to people by making them righteous. Just as being sinful controlled people by making them die, in the same way, when God makes people righteous, they live forever. This is because of what our Lord Jesus the Messiah has done.

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