*Romans 5:1-11
Paul explains how faith in Jesus Christ brings peace, hope, and reconciliation with God, even through suffering.
- Justification Through Faith:
- Paul begins by stating that since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Through Jesus, we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
- Rejoicing in Suffering:
- Not only do we rejoice in hope, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, understanding that suffering produces perseverance.
- Perseverance, in turn, produces character, and character produces hope.
- This hope does not put us to shame because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
- Christ’s Sacrifice for the Ungodly:
- Paul reflects on the rarity of someone dying for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
- He emphasizes that God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Salvation from God’s Wrath:
- Since we have been justified by Christ’s blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through Him.
- If, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved through His life.
- Rejoicing in God:
- Moreover, not only are we saved, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.