Romans 5:9

‘Much more then, being now accounted as in the right by his blood, will we be saved from the wrath (of God) through him.'

And as a consequence of being accounted as righteous by His sacrificial death for us, we will ‘much more' be saved from ‘the wrath' (God's wrath) through Him. Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:23 had concentrated on the fact that God's wrath had been revealed towards us as worked out through this present era, bringing about man's degradation (Romans 1:24) and making man's mind go astray and become ‘unfitting', resulting in deeper and deeper sin (Romans 1:28), and Romans 2:5 had pointed ahead to ‘the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God'. Thus wrath is both present and future, being experienced to some extent now, but coming to its climax on the day of Judgment. Now, however, Paul emphasises that for those who believe in Him (Romans 5:1) the consequences of that wrath have been removed from us ‘through Him' (Jesus Christ). Thus while we may still be subjected to ‘tribulations' (Romans 5:3), or to chastening (Hebrews 12:3; 1 Corinthians 11:30), we may be sure that we will never again suffer under the wrath of God. And this results from the fact that we have been ‘justified (accounted as righteous) by His blood' (compare Romans 3:24), that is, as a result of His sacrificial death for us. The Judge of all men thus now ‘accounts us as righteous', that is as ‘free from all charges', because of His righteousness given to us through Christ (Romans 1:17). It is this that enables God to actively give us ‘life'.