hope4life

{5:1} Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; {5:2} 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. {5:3} Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; {5:4} and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: {5:5} and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. {5:6} For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. {5:7} For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. {5:8} But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.