As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

So then, just as [God's] judgment came, condemning all people [to physical death] because of one sin [i.e., Adam's]; even so the free gift of being made right with God and [resulting in] life may be received by all people because of one man's [i.e., Christ's] act of righteousness. [Note: This "life" may refer to spiritual life now, or to being made alive in the resurrection, which would reverse the curse of physical death caused by Adam's sin].

For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God.

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

To the ones who continue doing what is good and who look for glory, honor and immortal life [God will give] never ending life.

But now, since you have been freed from [the practice of] sin and have become slaves to God, the benefits you receive are a holy life [here] and never ending life in the future.

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;

However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God].

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

And again he says, Take part, you Gentiles, in the joy of his people.

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.

For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.