Romanos 5

1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 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. 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 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.

6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. 10 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.

11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned. 13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. 14 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.

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. 16 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. 17 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.

18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. 19 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. 20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly, 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Tika ki te Atua

1 Nā, i te mea ka tika nei i te whakapono, kia mau tā tātou maunga rongo ki te Atua, he mea nā tō tātou Ariki, nā Īhu Karaiti; 2 nāna nei te whakatatanga i a tātou i runga i te whakapono ki tēnei aroha noa e tū nei tātou; ā, kia hari tātou i te mea ka tūmanako nei tātou ki te korōria o te Atua. 3 Ā, ehara i te mea ko tērā anake, engari, kia whakamanamana anō tātou ki ō tātou mamae; e mōhio ana hoki ko tā te mamae e mahi ai he manawanui; 4 ko tā te manawanui he mātauranga; ko tā te mātauranga he tūmanako; 5 e kore anō e whakamā i te mea ka tūmanako nei. Kua ringihia hoki te aroha o te Atua ki ō tātou ngākau e te Wairua Tapu kua hōmai nei ki a tātou.

6 I a tātou hoki e ngoikore tonu ana, i te wā i rite ai, ka mate a te Karaiti mō te hunga karakiakore. 7 E mate whakauaua hoki tētahi mō te tangata tika; tērā pea ia tētahi e māia rawa kia mate mō te tangata pai. 8 Heoi, e whakakitea nuitia ana e te Atua tōna aroha ki a tātou, i te mea, i a tātou anō e hara ana, ka mate a te Karaiti mō tātou.

9 Nā, i a tātou ka tika nei i ōna toto, tērā noa ake he whakaoranga māna i a tātou i te riri o te Atua. 10 Mehemea hoki, i te wā he hoa whawhai tātou, ka houhia tā tātou rongo ki te Atua i runga i te matenga o tāna Tama, tērā noa ake, i te mea ka mau nei te rongo, he whakaoranga mō tātou, i a ia kua ora nei. 11 Ehara hoki i te mea ko tērā anake, engari, e whakamanamana ana anō tātou ki te Atua, he mea nā tō tātou Ariki, nā Īhu Karaiti, nāna nei tēnei houhanga rongo ki a tātou.

Ko Ārama rāua ko Īhu Karaiti

12 Nā, ka rite ki te putanga mai o te hara ki te ao, he mea nā te tangata kotahi, me te mate anō i runga i te hara; ka hōrapa te mate ki ngā tāngata katoa; nō te mea kua hara katoa. 13 I te ao nei hoki te hara, ā tae noa mai te ture; otirā, e kore e whakairia te hara i te mea kāhore he ture. 14 Ahakoa rā he mana kīngi tō te mate nō Ārama iho anō taea noatia a Mohi, ki te hunga rawa kīhai nei i rite tō rātou hara ki tō Ārama poka kē. He āhua nei hoki ia nō tēnei i tāria nei.

15 Otirā, kīhai i rite ki te hara te mea i hōmai noa mai. Mehemea hoki nā te hara o te kotahi i mate ai te tokomaha, waihoki tērā noa atu te huanga ki te tokomaha o tō te Atua aroha noa, o te mea hōmai hoki i runga i te aroha noa o te tangata kotahi, o Īhu Karaiti. 16 Kīhai anō hoki i rite te mea i hōmai ki tō te kotahi i hara. Nō te kotahi hoki te whakawā i tau ai te hē; nō ngā hara maha ia te mea i hōmai noa mai hei whakatika. 17 Mehemea hoki nā te hara o te kotahi i kīngi ai te mate, he mea nā te tangata kotahi; waihoki tērā noa ake he kīngitanga i runga i te ora mō te hunga ka riro nei i a rātou te aroha noa e hua tonu nei, me te tika i hōmai noa nei, he mea nā te kotahi, arā, nā Īhu Karaiti.

18 Āe rā, i te mea nā te hara kotahi i tau ai te hē ki ngā tāngata katoa, waihoki nā te tika kotahi i puta ai te mea hōmai noa ki ngā tāngata katoa, e tika ai, e ora ai. 19 Nā, i te mea nā te tutū o te tangata kotahi i whai hara ai te tokomaha, waihoki nā te ngohengohe o te kotahi, ka meinga te tokomaha kia tika.

20 I puta mai te ture kia nui ai te hara; heoi i te hara e nui noa ana, kua hua noa ake te aroha noa; 21 he mea hoki, i te hanga ko te hara te kīngi i roto i te mate, kia kīngi hoki ko te aroha noa i runga o te tika ki te ora tonu, he meatanga nā Īhu Karaiti, nā tō tātou Ariki.