Some fruits of the gospel
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📚✭ ✭Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 📚by whom also we have access✭ by faith into this grace✭ in which we stand, and rejoice in hope✭ of the glory of God. 3 📚✭And not only so, but we rejoice in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation produces patient endurance✭; 4 📚and patient endurance, approved character; and approved character, hope; 5 📚✭✭ and hope brings no disappointment, because the love of God has been poured✭ out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us.6 📚✭For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 📚For scarcely will someone die for a righteous man, though perhaps for a good man some might even dare to die. 8 📚But God demonstrates his love toward us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 📚✭ Much more then, now having been justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath✭ through him. 10 📚For if when we were his enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life. 11 📚✭And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation✭.
Adam brought sin and death, Christ brings righteousness and life
12 📚✭✭Therefore, as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death came on all men, because all sinned – 13 📚for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not put into the account when there is no Law✭. 14 📚Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a type of him who was to come.
15 📚But the free gift is not like the offense. For if through the offense of one man many have died, much more the grace of God and the gift✭ by grace, through one man, Jesus Christ, has overflowed to many✭. 16 📚✭And the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned. For the judgment came through one man bringing condemnation, but the free gift which followed many offenses was for justification. 17 📚For if through one man’s offense death reigned✭ through that one, much more will those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.
18 📚Therefore, just as through the offense of one man judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation✭, so also through the righteous act of one✭ the free gift which results in justification of life came to all men✭. 19 📚For just as through one man’s disobedience✭ many were made sinners, so by the obedience✭ of one many will be made righteous.
Grace reigns through Christ