New Testament
Romans 5
Overview
Having established justification by faith, Paul turns to its blessings: since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, access into grace, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. He even rejoices in sufferings, because suffering produces endurance, endurance character, and character hope, a hope that does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Paul then magnifies that love: while we were still weak, ungodly, sinners, and enemies, Christ died for us — a death surpassing any human willingness to die for a good man — and if we were reconciled while enemies, how much more shall we be saved by His life. The second half of the chapter (5:12-21) sets Adam and Christ side by side as the two heads of humanity: through one man's trespass sin and death entered and reigned over all, but the free gift is not like the trespass, for through one man's obedience the many are made righteous. Where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more, so that as sin reigned in death, grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
5and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.
8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
10For 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.
11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14Nevertheless 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.
15But 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.
16The 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.
17For 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.
18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
20The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.