How does Paul ground hope and contrast offense with gift?

Justified by faith, Paul urges the readers to have peace with God through Jesus, through whom they have access by faith to the grace in which they stand and hope of the glory of God’s sons. They glory also in tribulations, which work patience, then trial and hope. Hope does not confound because God’s charity is poured into their hearts by the Holy Ghost given them. Paul asks why Christ died for the ungodly at the appointed time while they were weak. Scarcely does someone die for a just man, though perhaps someone dares to die for a good man. God commends his charity in Christ’s death while they were sinners. Justified now by his blood, they shall much more be saved from wrath through him. Reconciled as enemies by the Son’s death, they shall much more be saved by his life, glorying in God through the reconciliation received.

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, passing to all in whom all sinned. The annotation identifies Adam and contracted original sin. Sin existed before the law but was not imputed when there was no law. The note explains that people did not know or account it as sin, and that it was not imputed in the later manner of transgressing known written law. Death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those not sinning in the likeness of Adam’s transgression; Adam is a figure of the coming one.

The gift differs from the offence. One man’s offence brought death to many, but God’s grace and Jesus’s gift abound to many. Judgment from one sin condemns; grace from many offences justifies. Through one offence death reigns, but those receiving abundance of grace and the gift of justice shall reign in life through Jesus. Paul parallels one offence bringing condemnation to all with one justice bringing justification of life to all, and one man’s disobedience making many sinners with one man’s obedience making many just.

The law entered so sin might abound, but grace abounded more. The annotation explains that the law was not intentionally given to increase sin: human perversity made prohibition an occasion to sin more. As sin reigned in death, grace might reign through justice to everlasting life through Jesus.