Romans 5:10

We were reconciled; not personally and actually, for the apostle is speaking, as in verse Romans 5:8, of the expiatory death of Christ. He means, then, that a way of reconciliation was opened to us by death of Christ.

Being reconciled; that is, personally and actually, through faith in Christ's expiatory death.

We shall be saved by his life; both the death and resurrection of Christ are necessary to complete the work of our redemption. But here, as in chap Romans 4:25, he ascribes to his death the expiation of our sin, and to his life after his resurrection our actual introduction to a state of justification and eternal life. For Christ lives with all power in heaven and on earth to intercede for his saints and overrule all things for their good. Matthew 28:18; John 14:19; Romans 8:28-39; Hebrews 7:25. A change in men from a state of enmity to God manifested by rebelling against him, to a state of love for him manifested by obeying him, is proof that they have passed from death unto life, and that they will be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. 1 Peter 1:5.