Romans 5:3-12

³We rejoice even when we suffer as a result of our trusting in Christ, because we know that when we are suffering, the result is that we learn to endure things patiently.

⁴And we know that when we endure things patiently, the result is that God approves of us. And when we know that God approves of us, the result is that we confidently expect that he will do great things for us.

⁵And we are very confident PRS that we will receive the things that we wait expectantly for, because God loves us very much. His Holy Spirit, who has been {whom he has} given to us, causes us to understand how much God loves us.

⁶When we were unable to save ourselves, it was Christ who, at the time that God chose, died on behalf of us ungodly people.

⁷Rarely would anyone die on behalf of another person, even if that person were righteous, although someone might be courageous enough to die on behalf of a truly good person person.

⁸Nevertheless, as for God, the way he showed us that he loves us is that Christ died on our behalf while we were still rebelling against God.

⁹The record of our sins has been erased { God has erased the record of our sins} because of what Christ accomplished when his blood MTY flowed when he died. So it is even more certain that we will be saved by Christ {that Christ will save us} from God's punishing us eternally MTY.

¹⁰Even when we were acting hostilely towards God, he enabled us to have a peaceful relationship with him as a result of his Son dying for us. So it is even more certain that we will be saved {Christ will be able to save us} from God's punishing us MTY because Christ is alive again and because God has enabled us to have a peaceful relationship with himself.

¹¹And that's not all! Now we also rejoice about the things that God has done for us because of our Lord Jesus Christ dying for us and enabling us to have a peaceful relationship with God.

¹²What you can learn from what I have written so far is as follows: All people are sinful PRS, and that is the result of Adam, the first man whom God created, sinning long ago. Adam died PRS because he sinned. So, all people who have lived since then die, because it is as though all people sinned when Adam sinned.