Paul now tells us the benefits we receive as a result of trusting Jesus. Not only are our sins forgiven, but we have peace with God, assurance of heaven, we can rejoice in suffering, we receive the Holy Spirit and see a demonstration of God鈥檚 love for us. Jesus and Adam are contrasted. Adam was the first man God created. In Genesis 3, we are told he sinned and introduced sin and, as a result, death, to all humanity. Jesus is the man who is God who overcomes all of the sin of all of humanity with one righteous act.
The benefits we receive from salvation are many, and each one is priceless. We can never pay God back for what he has done, but there is nothing he can ask of us that isn鈥檛 deserving of our unquestioned submission.