Readings for Lent and Easter

This Means We Have Peace With God And Access To His Grace Through Jesus Christ

5 Therefore, having been declared-righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through Whom also we have the access by faith into this grace in which we stand.

And In Spite of Our Afflictions, Our Hope Will Not Disappoint Us, For God Loves Us

And we are boasting over the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only this, but we also are boasting in the afflictions— knowing that the affliction is producing endurance, ⁴ and the endurance is producing approvedness, and the approvedness is producing hope, ⁵ and the hope does not put-to-shame^[a] because the love of God has been poured-out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit having been given to us.

For God Shows His Love For Us In That Christ Died To Reconcile And Save Us

⁶ For while we were still being weak, yet at the right-time, Christ died for ungodly ones. ⁷ For one will rarely^[b] die for a righteous person; for^[c] perhaps someone may even dare to die for the good person. ⁸ But God demonstrates^[d] His own love for us because while we were still being sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Therefore by much more, having now been declared-righteous by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him. ¹⁰ For if while being enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, by much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Our Boast Is In God Through Jesus Christ

¹¹ And not only this, but we are also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we now received the reconciliation.