Peace and hope
1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we5:1 Many manuscripts let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we5:2 Or let us boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we5:3 Or let us also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Death through Adam, life through Christ
12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned –
13To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: the judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
18Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
20The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Vjera donosi radost
1Opravdani smo dakle u Božjim očima vjerom te pomireni s Bogom zbog onoga što je naš Gospodin Isus Krist za nas učinio. 2Zbog vjere u njega možemo pristupiti najvećoj milosti i radujemo se nadi Božje slave.
3Možemo se radovati i kad smo u nevolji jer znamo da je to za naše dobro—jača našu strpljivost. 4Strpljivost donosi prokušanost, a prokušanost nadu. 5Zbog tog se očekivanja nećemo postidjeti. Jer znamo da nas Bog silno ljubi—ulio je tu ljubav u naša srca po Svetom Duhu.
6Kad smo bili potpuno bespomoćni, Krist je došao u pravo vrijeme i umro za nas grešnike. 7Za dobra čovjeka malo bi tko bio voljan umrijeti, iako bi se za izvanredno dobra čovjeka možda i našao tko da za njega dade život. 8No Bog je pokazao svoju veliku ljubav prema nama time što je poslao Krista da umre za nas dok smo još bili grešnici. 9A kako smo mi u Božjim očima opravdani Kristovom krvlju, on će nas sigurno spasiti od Božjega suda. 10Jer kako nas je, dok smo još bili Božji neprijatelji, s njime pomirila smrt njegova Sina, tako će nas život njegova Sina sigurno osloboditi vječne kazne. 11Zato se sada možemo radovati svojemu novom odnosu prema Bogu—zato što nas je naš Gospodin Isus Krist pomirio s Bogom.
Adam je donio smrt, a Krist život
12Kad je Adam zgriješio, grijeh je ušao u sav ljudski rod. A budući da je taj Adamov grijeh donio smrt, smrt je prešla na sve ljude jer su svi zgriješili. 13Doista, ljudi su griješili i prije nego što su dobili Zakon. Ali iako još nije bilo Zakona koji bi kršili, 14svi su oni—od Adama do Mojsija—umrli iako nisu prekršili jasnu Božju zapovijed kao što je to Adam učinio. Kakve li razlike između Adama i Krista koji je tek trebao doći! 15Kako su različiti naši grijesi od Božjega milostivog dara! Jer taj jedan čovjek, Adam, svojim je grijehom mnogima donio smrt. Ali zato se na mnoge obilno izlila Božja milost oproštenja grijeha, darovana po jednome čovjeku—Isusu Kristu. 16S darom Božje milosti nije kao s posljedicama grijeha jednoga čovjeka—jer presuda nad Adamovim grijehom postala je osudom nad svima, a dar Božjega oproštenja nam je—nakon mnogih grijeha koje smo počinili—postao opravdanjem. 17Jer Adamovim je grijehom kroz jednog čovjeka nad nama zakraljila smrt, ali koji prime izobilni milosni dar pravednosti, živjet će u pobjedi nad grijehom i smrću—po jednome Čovjeku, Isusu Kristu. 18Prema tome, kao što je grijehom jednoga došla osuda na sve ljude, tako su pravednošću Jednoga na sve došli opravdanje i život. 19Baš kao što su zbog neposluha jednoga čovjeka mnogi postali grešnicima, tako će i zbog poslušnosti Jednoga mnogi postati pravednicima u Božjim očima. 20Božji je Zakon dan ljudima da se umnoži grijeh. Ali kako su ljudi sve više i više griješili, Božja divna milost sve se obilnije izlijevala. 21Baš kao što je grijeh nekada vladao nad svim ljudima i vodio ih u smrt, tako sada nad njima kraljuje Božja milost i opravdava ih pred Bogom da bi mogli imati vječni život po našemu Gospodinu Isusu Kristu.
