For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you;

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

Nor is there any comparison between the gift and the effects of that one man's sin. That sentence arose from the act of one man, and was for condemnation; but God's gift arose out of many offenses and results in acquittal.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

Will not he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, with that gift give us everything?

or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching,