The Justified Are Reconciled

⁶ For while we were still helpless, at the right time,^(A) Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. ⁸ But God proves^(B) his own love for us^(C) in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ How much more then, since we have now been justified by his blood,^(D) will we be saved through him from wrath.^{(E) 10} For if, while we were enemies,^(F) we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.^{(G) 11} And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.^(H)

The Believer’s Triumph

³¹ What, then, are we to say about these things?^(A) If God is for us, who is against us?^{(B) 32} He did not even spare his own Son^(C) but gave him up for us all.^(D) How will he not also with him grant us everything? ³³ Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?^(E) God is the one who justifies.^{(F) 34} Who is the one who condemns?^(G) Christ Jesus is the one who died,^(H) but even more, has been raised;^(I) he also is at the right hand of God^(J) and intercedes for us.^{(K) 35} Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction^(L) or distress or persecution^(M) or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^(P) through him who loved us.^{(Q) 38} For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,^(R) nor angels nor rulers,^(S) nor things present nor things to come,^(T) nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God^(U) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.^(V)

¹² At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise,^(A) without hope^(B) and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood^(C) of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both groups one^(D) and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh, ¹⁵ he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create^(E) in himself one^(F) new man from the two, resulting in peace. ¹⁶ He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body^(G) through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.^{[a] 17} He came and proclaimed the good news^(H) of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.^{(I) 18} For through him we both have access^(J) in one Spirit to the Father.^{(K) 19} So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,^(L) with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. ²¹ In him the whole building, being put together,^(M) grows into a holy temple in the Lord.^{(N) 22} In him you are also being built together^(O) for God’s dwelling^(P) in the Spirit.

²¹ Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. ²² But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death,^(F) to present you holy, faultless,^(G) and blameless before him^(H)— ²³ if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith^(I) and are not shifted away from the hope^(J) of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation^(K) under heaven,^(L) and I, Paul,^(M) have become a servant of it.