Romans
5:1-11
(1) Therefore, since we have been
justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2) Through him we have also
obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in
hope of the glory of God.
(3) More than that, we rejoice in
our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
(4) and endurance produces
character, and character produces hope,
(5) and
hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
(6) For while we were still weak,
at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
(7) For one will scarcely die for
a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to
die--
(8) but
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.
(9) Since, therefore, we have now
been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath
of God.
(10) For if while we were enemies
we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are
reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
(11) More than that, we also
rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
reconciliation.