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.
与上帝和好
1我们既然因信被称为义人，就借着我们的主耶稣基督与上帝和好了。 2我们又靠着祂，借着信进入现在所站的这恩典中，欢欢喜喜地盼望分享上帝的荣耀。 3不但如此，我们在苦难中也欢喜，因为知道苦难使人生忍耐， 4忍耐生品格，品格生盼望。 5这种盼望不会落空，因为上帝的爱借着所赐给我们的圣灵已倾注在我们心中。
6当我们还软弱无助的时候，基督就在所定的日期为罪人死了。 7为义人死，是罕见的；为好人死，也许有敢做的； 8但基督却在我们还做罪人的时候为我们死！上帝的爱就这样显明了。
9现在，我们既然因基督所流的血被称为义人，岂不更要靠着祂免受上帝的烈怒吗？ 10我们如果还与上帝为敌的时候，尚且可以借着祂儿子的死亡与祂和好，和好之后岂不更要借着祂儿子的生命得到拯救吗？ 11不但如此，我们借着主耶稣基督与上帝和好之后，还要借着祂以上帝为乐。
亚当与基督
12因此，罪怎样从一个人进入世界并带来死亡，死亡也怎样临到世人，因为世人都犯了罪。 13没有律法之前，罪已经在世上；但没有律法，罪也不算为罪。 14其实，从亚当到摩西的时代，死亡一直辖制着人类，甚至连那些不与亚当犯同样罪的人也不能幸免。亚当是将要来的那位的预表。
15然而，上帝的洪恩远超过亚当的过犯。若因这一人的过犯，众人都要死亡，那么上帝的恩典，也就是通过耶稣基督一人所赐的恩典，岂不要更丰富地临到众人吗？ 16再者，上帝的恩赐不同于一人犯罪的后果。因为随一人犯罪而来的审判使人被定罪，随累累过犯而来的恩赐使人被称为义人。 17若因一人的过犯，死亡就借着这人做了王，那么接受上帝洪恩又得到祂所赐之义的人，岂不更要借着耶稣基督一人在生命中做王吗？
18如此说来，因为一次过犯，众人都被定罪；照样，因为一次义行，众人都被称为义人，得到生命。 19因为一人的悖逆，众人成为罪人；照样，因为一人的顺服，众人将被称为义人。 20律法的颁布，使过犯更多地显出来，只是哪里的罪越多，哪里的恩典就越丰富。 21所以，罪怎样掌权带来死亡5:21 “罪怎样掌权带来死亡”或译“罪怎样借着死亡掌权”。，恩典也照样借着义掌权，为要借着我们主耶稣基督带来永生。
