Romans 5

Romans 5:1

¹Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:2-5

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.

Through Christ we stand in grace and rejoice in hope of glory; we even rejoice in sufferings, knowing they produce endurance, character, and hope that does not disappoint because God’s love is poured out through the Spirit.

Romans 5:6-7

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.

At the right time Christ died for the ungodly while we were weak—an act rarer than dying for a righteous or good person.

Romans 5:8

⁸But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God demonstrates His own love toward us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:9-10

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.

Much more, having been justified by Christ’s blood, we shall be saved from wrath; having been reconciled by His death as enemies, we shall be saved by His life.

Romans 5:11-14

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.

We rejoice in God through reconciliation; sin and death entered through one man, Adam, and death reigned even over those whose sin differed from Adam’s transgression—Adam being a type of the Coming One.

Romans 5:15-17

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.

The free gift is not like the trespass: grace abounds where many died; the gift of righteousness through Jesus leads those who receive it to reign in life.

Romans 5:18-21

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.

One trespass brought condemnation for all; one act of righteousness brings justification and life. Law entered to increase trespass, but where sin increased, grace overflowed leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ.

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