More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,

So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!

If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

More than that, we actually glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom we owe our reconciliation.

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 we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

But in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.

But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!

Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,