Romans 5:1-5
THE BLESSED CONSEQUENCES OF JUSTIFICATION. A recital of the blessings:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BLESSED CONSEQUENCES OF JUSTIFICATION. A recital of the blessings:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST;... [ Continue Reading ]
BY WHOM ALSO WE HAVE ACCESS BY FAITH INTO THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND, AND REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO, KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION WORKETH PATIENCE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PATIENCE, EXPERIENCE; AND EXPERIENCE, HOPE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HOPE MAKETH NOT ASHAMED. The apostle takes up the thread of his discussion by naming some of the blessed results that follow from the state of being justified, by picturing the work of God in our behalf, as He shows it to justified sinners, by showing the relation of the believers to God arising... [ Continue Reading ]
The basis of the Christian's hope:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN WE WERE YET WITHOUT STRENGTH, IN DUE TIME CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SCARCELY FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN WILL ONE DIE; YET PERADVENTURE FOR A GOOD MAN SOME WOULD EVEN DARE TO DIE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US IN THAT, WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.... [ Continue Reading ]
MUCH MORE, THEN, BEING NOW JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, WE SHALL BE SAVED FROM WRATH THROUGH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT WE ALSO JOY IN GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE ATONEMENT. Why the hope of the Christian will not put him to shame, will not prove delusive: is now explained by the apostle: For the love of God is poured out in our hearts through the Holy Ghost... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE AS BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD AND DEATH BY SIN, AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST AND THE SECOND ADAM. Death the consequence of sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR UNTIL THE LAW SIN WAS IN THE WORLD; BUT SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHEN THERE IS NO LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THEM THAT HAD NOT SINNED AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION, WHO IS THE FIGURE OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME. The apostle here introduces an extended comparison between the salvation which we owe to Christ, and the calamity of Adam's trans... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOT AS THE OFFENSE, SO ALSO IS THE FREE GIFT. FOR IF THROUGH THE OFFENSE OF ONE MANY BE DEAD, MUCH MORE THE GRACE OF GOD, AND THE GIFT BY GRACE, WHICH IS BY ONE MAN, JESUS CHRIST, HATH ABOUNDED UNTO MANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
Parallelism and contrast:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT AS IT WAS BY ONE THAT SINNED, SO IS THE GIFT; FOR THE JUDGMENT WAS BY ONE TO CONDEMNATION, BUT THE FREE GIFT IS OF MANY OFFENSES UNTO JUSTIFICATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF BY ONE MAN'S OFFENSE DEATH REIGNED BY ONE, MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND OF THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL REIGN IN LIFE BY ONE, JESUS CHRIST.) The apostle here explains his statement as to Adam's being a type of Christ. But not as the offense, the transgression, so als... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, AS BY THE OFFENSE OF ONE, JUDGMENT CAME UPON ALL MEN TO CONDEMNATION, EVEN SO BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF ONE THE FREE GIFT CAME UPON ALL MEN UNTO JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
A summary of the argument:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS BY ONE MAN'S DISOBEDIENCE MANY WERE MADE SINNERS, SO BY THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOREOVER, THE LAW ENTERED THAT THE OFFENSE MIGHT ABOUND. BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH, EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. Paul now takes up the thread of the argument which he introduced in v. 12. He introduces the inference from the whole discussion with "wherefore. " As by the trespass of... [ Continue Reading ]