¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^(A)

³² He who did not spare his own Son,^(A) but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge^(B) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns?^(C) No one. Christ Jesus who died^(D)—more than that, who was raised to life^(E)—is at the right hand of God^(F) and is also interceding for us.^(G)

¹¹ Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.^(A)

²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,^[a](A) through the shedding of his blood^(B)—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished^(C)—