Peace with God Through Faith

5 ^(A)Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, ^(B)we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we have also ^(C)obtained access by faith^[b] into this grace ^(D)in which we stand, and ^(E)we^[c] rejoice^[d] in hope of the glory of God.

¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves ^(A)dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

^19 (A)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(B)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(C)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

^20 (D)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ^21 (E)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(F)of which you are now ashamed? ^(G)For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you ^(H)have been set free from sin and ^(I)have become slaves of God, ^(J)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(K)its end, eternal life. ^23 (L)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.