Peace and Hope

5 Therefore, since we have been justified^(A) through faith,^(B) we^[a] have peace^(C) with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,^{(D) 2} through whom we have gained access^(E) by faith into this grace in which we now stand.^(F) And we^[b] boast in the hope^(G) of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we^[c] also glory in our sufferings,^(H) because we know that suffering produces perseverance;^{(I) 4} perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope^(J) does not put us to shame, because God’s love^(K) has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,^(L) who has been given to us.

⁶ You see, at just the right time,^(M) when we were still powerless,^(N) Christ died for the ungodly.^{(O) 7} Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.^(P)

⁹ Since we have now been justified^(Q) by his blood,^(R) how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath^(S) through him! ¹⁰ For if, while we were God’s enemies,^(T) we were reconciled^(U) to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!^{(V) 11} Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.^(W)

³⁰ And those he predestined,^(A) he also called;^(B) those he called, he also justified;^(C) those he justified, he also glorified.^(D)

More Than Conquerors

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^(E) If God is for us,^(F) who can be against us?^{(G) 32} He who did not spare his own Son,^(H) but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge^(I) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns?^(J) No one. Christ Jesus who died^(K)—more than that, who was raised to life^(L)—is at the right hand of God^(M) and is also interceding for us.^{(N) 35} Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^(O) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^{(P) 36} As it is written:

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^(R) through him who loved us.^{(S) 38} For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[b] neither the present nor the future,^(T) nor any powers,^{(U) 39} neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God^(V) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.^(W)