¹⁸ So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

⁹ But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

⁴ who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

¹⁹ For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.

¹⁵ 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.

¹² Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

²⁵ who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

³⁹ and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know the truth.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

²⁰ Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

²² even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

²⁶ They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."

⁷ The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: