1. Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2. He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!
3. We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
4. endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
5. 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.
6. For when we were still helpless, Christ died for the wicked at the time that God chose.