For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.

But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

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].

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.

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 merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

And the gift [of salvation] is not like [the effect of] one man's sin [i.e., Adam's], for [God's] judgment of condemnation came [upon mankind] through one man [i.e., Adam], but the free gift [of salvation] came as the result of [the] many sins [of mankind] and [it] made people right with God.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.

And so I have made it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,