“Then those bad people will go away. They will have punishment forever. But the good people will go and have life forever.”
Romans 5:21 - Easy To Read Version Sin once used death to rule us. But God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. This brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So that, [just] as sin has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord. American Standard Version (1901) that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Common English Bible The result is that grace will rule through God’s righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, just as sin ruled in death. Catholic Public Domain Version So then, just as sin has reigned unto death, so also may grace reign through justice unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That as sin hath reigned to death; so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
“Then those bad people will go away. They will have punishment forever. But the good people will go and have life forever.”
The Word {\cf2\super [5]} became a man and lived among us. We saw his glory—the glory that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace (kindness) and truth.
I give my sheep eternal life. They will never die. And no person can take them out of my hand.
Abraham {\cf2\super [39]} and his descendants {\cf2\super [40]} received the promise that they would get the whole world. But Abraham did not receive that promise because he followed the law. {\cf2\super [41]} Abraham received that promise because he was right with God through his faith.
Sin came into the world because of what one man (Adam) did. And with sin came death. So this is why all people must die—because all people sinned.
But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, all people had to die. Adam died because he sinned by not obeying God’s command. But even those people that did not sin the way Adam sinned had to die.
One man sinned, and so death ruled all people because of that one man. But now some people accept God’s full grace (kindness) and his great gift of being made right. Surely those people will have true life and rule through the one man, Jesus Christ.
But don’t let sin control you in your life here on earth. You must not be ruled by the things your sinful self makes you want to do.
Sin will not be your master. Why? Because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace (kindness).
Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, or obey God. Sin brings spiritual death. But obeying God makes you right with him.
When people sin, they earn what sin pays—death. But God gives his people a free gift—life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God.
\{That is the way we should live,\} because God’s grace (kindness) has come. That grace can save every person. And that grace has been given to us.
Who were those people who heard God’s voice and were against him? It was all those people that Moses led out of Egypt.
Yes, you will suffer for a short time. But after that, God will make everything right. He will make you strong. He will support you and keep you from falling. He is the God that gives all grace (kindness). He called you to share in his glory in Christ. That glory will continue forever.
Greetings from Simon Peter, a servant and apostle {\cf2\super [1]} of Jesus Christ.