القراءة بلغتين

فلَمَّا بُرِّرْنا بِالإِيمان حَصَلْنا على السَّلامِ مع اللهِ بِرَبِّنا يسوعَ المَسيح

وبِه أَيضًا بَلَغْنا بِالإِيمانِ إِلى هٰذِه النِّعمَةِ الَّتي فيها نَحنُ قائِمون، ونَفتَخِرُ بِالرَّجاءِ لِمَجْدِ الله

لا بل نَفتَخِرُ بِشَدائِدِنا نَفْسِها لِعِلمِنا أَنَّ الشِّدَّةَ تَلِدُ الثَّبات

والثَّباتَ يَلِدُ فَضيلةَ الِٱختِبار وفَضيلةَ الِٱختِبار تَلِدُ الرَّجاء

والرَّجاءَ لا يُخَيِّبُ صاحِبَه، لِأَنَّ مَحَبَّةَ الله أُفيضَت في قُلوبِنا بِالرُّوحِ القُدُسِ الَّذي وُهِبَ لَنا

ولَمَّا كُنَّا لا نَزالُ ضُعَفاء، ماتَ المسيحُ في الوَقْتِ المُحَدَّدِ مِن أَجْلِ قَوْمٍ كافِرين

ولا يَكادُ يَموتُ أَحَدٌ مِن أَجْلِ ٱمرِئٍ بارّ، ورُبَّما جَرُؤَ أَحَدٌ أَن يَموتَ مِن أَجْلِ ٱمرِئٍ صالِح

أَمَّا اللهُ فقَد دَلَّ على مَحَبَّتِه لَنا بِأَنَّ المسيحَ قد ماتَ مِن أَجْلِنا إِذ كُنَّا خاطِئين

فما أَحرانا اليَوم، وقَد بُرِّرنا بِدَمِه، أَن نَنجُوَ بِه مِنَ الغَضَب!

فإِن صالَحَنا اللهُ بِمَوتِ ٱبنِه ونَحنُ أَعداؤُه، فما أَحرانا أَن نَنجُوَ بِحَياتِه ونَحنُ مُصالَحون!

لا بَل إِنَّنا نَفتَخِرُ بِالله، بِرَبِّنا يسوعَ المسيحِ الَّذي بِه نِلْنا الآنَ المُصالَحة

فكَما أَنَّ الخَطيئَةَ دَخَلَت في العالَمِ عَن يَدِ إِنسانٍ واحِد، وبِالخَطيئَةِ دَخَلَ المَوت، وهٰكذا سَرى المَوتُ إِلى جَميعِ النَّاسِ لِأَنَّهُم جَميعًا خَطِئوا…

فالخَطيئَةُ كانَت في العالَمِ إِلى عَهْدِ الشَّريعة، ومع أَنَّه لا تُحسَبُ خَطيئَةٌ على فاعِلِها إِذا لم تَكُنْ هُناكَ شَريعة

فقَد سادَ المَوتُ مِن عَهْدِ آدَمَ إِلى عَهْدِ موسى، سادَ حتَّى الَّذينَ لم يَرتَكِبوا خَطيئَةً تُشبِهُ مَعصِيَةَ آدم، وهو صُورَةٌ لِلَّذي سيَأتي

ولٰكِن لَيسَتِ الهِبَةُ كَمِثْلِ الزَّلَّة: فإِذا كانَت جَماعَةُ النَّاسِ قد ماتَت بِزَلَّةِ إِنسانٍ واحِد، فبِالأَوْلى أَن تَفيضَ على جَماعَةِ النَّاسِ نِعمَةُ اللهِ والعَطاءُ المَمْنوحُ بِنِعمَةِ إِنسانٍ واحِد، أَلا وهو يسوعُ المسيح

ولَيسَتِ الهِبَةُ كَمِثْلِ ما جَرَّت مِنَ العَواقِبِ خَطيئَةُ إِنسانٍ واحِد. فالحُكْمُ على أَثَرِ خَطيئَةِ إِنسانٍ واحِدٍ أَفْضى إِلى الإِدانة، والهِبَةُ على أَثَرِ زَلَّاتٍ كَثيرةٍ أَفضَت إِلى التَّبْرير

فإِذا كانَ المَوتُ بِزَلَّةِ إِنسانٍ واحِد قد سادَ عن يَدِ إِنسانٍ واحِد، فما أَحْرى أُولٰئِكَ الَّذينَ تَلَقَّوا فَيضَ النِّعمَةِ وهِبَةَ البِرِّ أَن يَسودوا بالحَياةِ بيَسوعَ المسيحِ وَحدَه

فكَما أَنَّ زَلَّةَ إِنسانٍ واحِدٍ أَفضَت بِجَميعِ النَّاسِ إِلى الإِدانة، فكَذٰلِكَ بِرُّ إِنسانٍ واحِدٍ يَأتِي جَميعَ النَّاسِ بِالتَّبْريرِ الَّذي يَهَبُ الحَياة

فكما أَنَّه بِمَعصِيَةِ إِنسانٍ واحِدٍ جُعِلَت جَماعةُ النَّاسِ خاطِئَة، فكَذٰلِكَ بِطاعةِ واحِدٍ تُجعَلُ جَماعةُ النَّاسِ بارَّة

وقَد جاءَتِ الشَّريعةُ لِتَكثُرَ الزَّلَّة، ولٰكِن حَيثُ كَثُرَتِ الخَطيئَة فاضَتِ النِّعمَة

حتَّى إِنَّه كما سادَتِ الخَطيئَةُ لِلمَوت، فكذٰلك تَسودُ النِّعمَةُ بِالبِرِّ في سَبيلِ الحَياةِ الأَبَدِيَّةِ بِيَسوعَ المسيحِ رَبِّنا

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.