5. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6. For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7. (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)
8. But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9. Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.
10. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
11. Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
12. So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –
13. for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.
14. Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.