For I want very much to see you, so I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

Now to the one who works, pay is not considered as a gift, but as something owed.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

And the gift is not like the one man’s sin, because from one sin came the judgment, resulting in condemnation, but from many trespasses came the gift, resulting in justification.

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.