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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 5 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Romans 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/4.htm" title="Romans 4">◄</a> Romans 5 <a href="../romans/6.htm" title="Romans 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Right with God</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_5_1"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.1" class="v45_5_1">1</span>Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have<a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.5.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. </span><span class="v45_5_2"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.2" class="v45_5_2">2</span>He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast<a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.5.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of the hope we have of sharing God's glory! </span><span class="v45_5_3"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.3" class="v45_5_3">3</span>We also boast<a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.5.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, </span><span class="v45_5_4"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.4" class="v45_5_4">4</span>endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope. </span><span class="v45_5_5"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.5" class="v45_5_5">5</span>This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_5_6"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.6" class="v45_5_6">6</span>For when we were still helpless, Christ died for the wicked at the time that God chose. </span><span class="v45_5_7"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.7" class="v45_5_7">7</span>It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person. </span><span class="v45_5_8"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.8" class="v45_5_8">8</span>But God has shown us how much he loves us—it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us! </span><span class="v45_5_9"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.9" class="v45_5_9">9</span>By his blood<a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.5.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger! </span><span class="v45_5_10"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.10" class="v45_5_10">10</span>We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life! </span><span class="v45_5_11"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.11" class="v45_5_11">11</span>But that is not all; we rejoice because of what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has now made us God's friends.</span></p><h3 class="s">Adam and Christ</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_5_12"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.12" class="v45_5_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.5.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned. </span><span class="v45_5_13"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.13" class="v45_5_13">13</span>There was sin in the world before the Law was given; but where there is no law, no account is kept of sins. </span><span class="v45_5_14"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.14" class="v45_5_14">14</span>But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, death ruled over all human beings, even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam did when he disobeyed God's command.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_5_14">Adam was a figure of the one who was to come. </span><span class="v45_5_15"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.15" class="v45_5_15">15</span>But the two are not the same, because God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his free gift to so many people through the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ. </span><span class="v45_5_16"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.16" class="v45_5_16">16</span>And there is a difference between God's gift and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the judgment of “Guilty”; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of “Not guilty!” </span><span class="v45_5_17"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.17" class="v45_5_17">17</span>It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_5_18"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.18" class="v45_5_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.5.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life. </span><span class="v45_5_19"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.19" class="v45_5_19">19</span>And just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_5_20"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.20" class="v45_5_20">20</span>Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more. </span><span class="v45_5_21"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.5.21" class="v45_5_21">21</span>So then, just as sin ruled by means of death, so also God's grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.1: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">we have; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">let us have.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.2: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">we boast; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">let us boast.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.3: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">We also boast; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Let us also boast.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.9: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">By his blood; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">By his sacrificial death.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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