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1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;Cross-references: Job 21:21 · Ps 85:8 · Ps 122:6 · Isa 27:5 · Isa 32:17 · Isa 54:13 · +45 more
2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.Cross-references: Ex 33:18 · Job 19:25 · Ps 16:9 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 73:24 · Prov 14:32 · +35 more
3Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;Cross-references: Matt 5:10 · Luke 6:22 · Luke 21:19 · Acts 5:41 · Rom 8:35 · 2Cor 4:17 · +10 more
4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;Cross-references: Josh 10:24 · 1Sam 17:34 · Ps 27:2 · Ps 42:4 · Ps 71:14 · Ps 71:18 · +8 more
5and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.Cross-references: Job 27:8 · Ps 22:4 · Ps 119:116 · Isa 28:15 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 45:16 · +24 more
6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.Cross-references: Ps 1:1 · Lam 1:6 · Ezek 16:4 · Dan 11:15 · Rom 4:5 · Rom 4:25 · +17 more
7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.Cross-references: 2Sam 18:3 · 2Sam 18:27 · 2Sam 23:14 · Ps 112:5 · John 15:13 · Acts 11:24 · +2 more
8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.Cross-references: Isa 53:6 · John 3:16 · John 15:13 · Rom 3:5 · Rom 4:25 · Rom 5:6 · +7 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →
9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.Cross-references: John 5:24 · Rom 1:18 · Rom 3:24 · Rom 5:1 · Rom 5:10 · Rom 8:1 · +6 more
10For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.Cross-references: Lev 6:30 · 2Chr 29:24 · Ezek 45:20 · Dan 9:24 · John 5:26 · John 6:40 · +18 more
11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:1 · Ps 32:11 · Ps 43:4 · Ps 104:34 · Ps 149:2 · Isa 61:10 · +17 more
12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:6 · Gen 3:19 · Gen 3:22 · Ps 51:5 · Ezek 18:4 · +10 more
13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Gen 6:5 · Gen 6:11 · Gen 8:21 · Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · +9 more
14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.Cross-references: Gen 4:8 · Gen 5:5 · Gen 7:22 · Gen 19:25 · Ex 1:6 · Ex 1:22 · +9 more
15But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.Cross-references: Isa 53:11 · Isa 55:7 · Dan 12:2 · Matt 20:28 · Matt 26:28 · John 3:16 · +13 more
16The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Isa 1:18 · Isa 43:25 · Isa 44:22 · Luke 7:47 · Acts 13:38 · +5 more
17For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 3:19 · Isa 61:10 · Matt 25:34 · John 10:10 · Rom 5:12 · +17 more
18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.Cross-references: John 1:7 · John 3:26 · John 12:32 · Acts 13:39 · Rom 3:19 · Rom 4:25 · +8 more
19For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.Cross-references: Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:24 · Rom 5:12 · Rom 5:15 · Rom 5:18 · 2Cor 5:21 · +3 more
20The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,Cross-references: 2Chr 33:9 · Ps 25:11 · Isa 1:18 · Isa 43:24 · Jer 3:8 · Ezek 16:52 · +20 more
21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Cross-references: John 1:16 · John 10:28 · Rom 4:13 · Rom 5:12 · Rom 5:14 · Rom 5:17 · +11 more
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