Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Romans 5:4
Experience— Full proof. The Greek word δοκιμη, has this signification, and is a metaphor taken from gold proved by purifying fire. See 1 Peter 1:7. Sir 2:5 and Saurin's Serm.
Experience— Full proof. The Greek word δοκιμη, has this signification, and is a metaphor taken from gold proved by purifying fire. See 1 Peter 1:7. Sir 2:5 and Saurin's Serm.
Verse Romans 5:4. _AND PATIENCE, EXPERIENCE_] δοκιμεν, _Full proof, by_ _trial_, of the truth of our religion, the solidity of our Christian state, and the faithfulness of our God. In such cases we h...
AND PATIENCE, EXPERIENCE - Patient endurance of trial produces experience. The word rendered “experience” (δοκιμήν dokimēn) means trial, testing, or that thorough examination by which we ascertain t...
CHAPTER 5:1-11 1. What Justification Includes. 1-11. The blessed results of justification are next revealed. What justified believers possess and what they may enjoy is the theme of the opening verse...
THE FRUITS OF JUSTIFYING FAITH. Romans 5:1_ a_. Since then we have been justified, etc., recapitulates Romans 3:22 to Romans 4:25. The apodosis (according to the best-attested reading, RV) is hortator...
Since, then, we have been put into a right relationship with God in consequence of faith, let us enjoy peace with him through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, by faith, we are in possession of an i...
AT HOME WITH GOD (Romans 5:1-5)...
EXPERIENCE. Greek. _dokime._ Here; 2Co 2:9. 2 Corinthians 8:2; 2 Corinthians 9:13; 2 Corinthians 13:3.Philippia
_experience_ The Gr. properly means "_a proof, a test_." So usually in N. T.: e.g. 2 Corinthians 8:2 (where E. V. "trial"), Romans 13:3 (where E. V. "proof"); Philippians 2:22 ("proof"). The word here...
Romans 5:1-11. Introduction, describing the nature of the state in which we are, under the power of the Gospel: (1) Since, then, we are justified by GOD on the single condition of faith, let us mainta...
ΔΟΚΙΜῊ. (1) The process of testing, 2 Corinthians 8:2; (2) the result—the temper given to the steel, Philippians 2:22; 2 Corinthians 2:9;...
ΔΟΚΙΜΉ (G1382) подтвержденный характер, качество, подтвержденное в результате испытаний и расследований (BAGD; SH)....
DISCOURSE: 1840 BENEFITS ARISING FROM A JUSTIFYING FAITH Romans 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into...
_TEXT_ Romans 5:1-11. Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; Romans 5:2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we...
And patience, experience; and experience, hope: AND PATIENCE [WORKETH] EXPERIENCE, [ dokimeen (G1382)] - rather 'proof,' as the same word is rendered in 2 Corinthians 2:9; 2 Cor...
_JUSTIFICATION-INDIVIDUAL_ 13 As further developed in Galatians, the law was not given till hundreds of years after Abraham was counted righteous. The promises he received in connection with it were...
GOD'S SALVATION AND THE RESULTS OF ITS ACCEPTANCE St. Paul completes his exposition of acceptance by faith by pointing to its blessed effects (Romans 5:1). In the following vv. he compares sin and acc...
EXPERIENCE] RV 'probation,' i.e. a test: here the character of one who has come through the test of suffering strong and ready for all things....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 THE *BLESSINGS THAT WE RECEIVE BECAUSE OF GOD’S *GRACE 5:1-11 V1 We are *righteous because of our *faith. So we are...
V. (1-11) A description of the serene and blissful state which the sense of justification brings. Faith brings justification; justification brings (let us see that it _does_ bring) peace — peace with...
A climax in which are put forward higher and higher grades of fortitude and constancy....
EXPERIENCE. — “Approvedness,” the quality of being tried and approved. The result of patient endurance is to test, confirm, and refine the better elements of faith. Out of this, in its turn, grows hop...
CHAPTER 12 PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY FOR THE JUSTIFIED Romans 5:1 WE reached a pause in the Apostle's thought with the close of the last paragraph. We may reverently imagine, as in spirit we listen to hi...
The blessings of Justification. The first section of the epistle (chap. Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20) has proved man's need of the righteousness of God; the second (chap. Romans 3:21-30) has shown how t...
ὑπομονὴν κατεργάζεται : has as its fruit, or effect, endurance. ὑπομονὴ has more of the sense of bravery and effort than the English “patience”: it is not so passive. ἡ δὲ ὑπομονὴ δοκιμήν : endurance...
GREAT BLESSINGS THROUGH CHRIST Romans 5:1 We stand in grace; we look for glory. Our standing is sure, although apart from our feelings or deserts. It is ours forever, through union with the living Ch...
The apostle now dealt with the values of justification. The value to the individual is a threefold blessing. This nature as to cause the heart to rejoice. The apostle now showed the difference between...
ELEVENTH PASSAGE (5:1-11). THE CERTAINTY OF FINAL SALVATION FOR BELIEVERS. The title which we have just given to this piece suffices to indicate the difference between the idea which we form of its sc...
“ _And not only so, but we triumph on account of tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh constancy; and approval; and hope._ ” This passage being, strictly speaking, the answer to an unexp...
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (2) By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_PRESENT PRIVILEGES OF THE JUSTIFIED_ ‘Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.… And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad i...
4._Patience, probation_, _etc. _James, adopting a similar gradation, seems to follow a different order; for he says, that patience proceeds from probation: but the different meaning of the word is wha...
Thus, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Remark here also the difference of Abraham's faith and ours. He believed God could perform what He promised. We are called to believe He has per...
AND PATIENCE EXPERIENCE,.... As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and increased, enlarges the saints' stock and fund of experience; of the love and grace...
And patience, experience; and experience, hope: Ver. 4. _And experience, hope_] Without hope patience is cold almost in the fourth degree, and that is but a little from poison....
_And not only so_ Not only do we possess the four fore- mentioned inestimable blessings; _but we glory in tribulations also_ Which we are so far from esteeming a mark of God's displeasure, that we rec...
EXPERIENCE; also in the old Latin sense of trial, and then proof, tried integrity which comes from trial rightly endured, and is the object of God's approval. The same Greek word is used in Philippian...
AND PATIENCE, EXPERIENCE; AND EXPERIENCE, HOPE;...
THE BLESSED CONSEQUENCES OF JUSTIFICATION. A recital of the blessings:...
BLESSINGS ATTENDING JUSTIFICATION Now as to the _means_ and _assurance_ of present justification, every question has been answered, every doubt fully banished by simple, straightforward truth. Thus ev...
ROMANS 5:1-11 What saves us? Verse What saves? Other things Scripture 1 Faith Repentance Acts 17:30 2 Grace of God Confession Romans 10:9-10 5 Love of God Baptism...
AND STEDFASTNESS, APPROVEDNESS; AND APPROVEDNESS, HOPE: "APPROVEDNESS" -a tried condition,. condition tried and not wanting-used in regard to metal and to coins and implies. testing of their genuinene...
1-5 A blessed change takes place in the sinner's state, when he becomes a true believer, whatever he has been. Being justified by faith he has peace with God. The holy, righteous God, cannot be at pe...
AND PATIENCE, EXPERIENCE; viz. of God's sustentation and care of us, and of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, PSALMS 91:15 ISAIAH 43:2 2 CORINTHIANS 1:4,5; as also of our own sincerity, and...
and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope :...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II "For patience," he says, "worketh experience, and experience hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy...
Romans 5:4 and G1161 perseverance G5281 character G1382 and G1161 character G1382 hope G1680 patience -...
Paul now continues to describe the process by which God shapes our lives. For ‘tribulation works steadfastness, and steadfastness brings us to a place of refined purity (approval after testing), and t...
SALVATION TO THE UTTERMOST (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ's activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the...
WE ARE ASSURED OF REIGNING IN LIFE AND ENJOYING FUTURE GLORY AND THE BASIS OF THIS IS WHAT CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED FOR US (5:1-21). Having been reckoned as righteous through faith we have peace with G...
THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF OUR BEING ACCOUNTED AS RIGHTEOUS THROUGH FAITH (5:1-11). Paul now outlines some of the consequences of our being ‘accounted as righteous' through faith. These he represents...
Romans 5:4. APPROVAL. ‘ Experience' is too wide, since it may include the whole Christian life. The term here used refers to the state of one who has successfully stood a test. In itself it might refe...
3. THE GOSPEL THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION. In this _third division_ of the doctrinal part of the Epistle, the Apostle presents the gospel as ‘the power of God unto salvation,' setting forth how G...
1. THE BLESSED INWARD CONDITION OF THE JUSTIFIED. Justification has as its proper result peace with God (Romans 5:1), which becomes hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:2), is actually increased by trib...
KNOWING (ειδοτες). Second perfect participle of ειδον (οιδα), giving the reason for the previous exhortation to glory in tribulations. He gives a linked chain, one linking to the other (tribulation...
Romans 5:1 Immediate Results of Justification. To be acquitted of guilt through the death of Jesus is the most elementary blessing which the gospel brings to our condemned race, shut up in its prison...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore-_ The apostle Paul had the logical faculty largely developed, so his writings are full of «therefores.» And the Christian religion, as a whole, stands logically connected, doct...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ We have it tonight. We enjoy it. We delight in it, «through our Lord Jesus Christ.» Romans 5:2...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ These are matters of fact; not of fanatical delusion, but of logical conclusion, for Paul begin...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ This verse deserves to be printed in letters of gold. If you can truthfully say this, if it is...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ Do not let us simply read these words, but let us each one say in our hearts, «That is true; I...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with, God_ It is a matter of present possession, and present enjoyment. Whatever tribulation there may be in the world, «we have peace w...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith,_ But why «therefore»? Because of the verge preceding it: «Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.» Christ died...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ The gospel is full of «therefores», it is above reason, but it is never against reason; it is t...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the...
CONTENTS: The results of justification. Life and righteousness through Jesus Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Adam, Moses. CONCLUSION: Justification through faith in Jesus Christ takes a...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God._ Faith in the atonement removes the guilt of sin, and makes us heirs of all the promised righteousness of God; the prodigals ar...
AND WE ALSO REJOICE. The Jews boasted about their happiness in the Law. They saw the Christian's _trouble_ as a sign of God's disapproval. Not so, says Paul. TROUBLE produces _endurance, approval, hop...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 5:1 Hope as a Result of Righteousness by Faith. Believers in Christ, who are righteous in God’s sight, have a sure hope of future glory and life eternal....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 5:1.—We have peace, for Christ is our peace. Several manuscripts translate, “Let us have peace,” adopted by the R.V. Justification here spoken of as an act already done—_i.e._...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 5:1 (6) The _results of the revelation of the righteousness of God, as affecting_ (A) the consciousness and hopes of believers; (B) the position of mankind before God. ROMANS 5:...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of Romans. Since chapter 3 Paul has been talking about justification by faith. How that God has declared me innocent because of my faith in Jesus C...
1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 5:10; 1 Samuel 17:34; 2 Corint
Experience [δ ο κ ι μ η ν]. Wrong. The word means either the process of trial, proving, as 2 Corinthians 8:2, or the result of trial, approvedness, Philippians 2:22. Here it can only be the latter : t...
MUCH MORE THE GRACE OF GOD Romans 5:1, _Romans 5:15_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us today portions of Romans for our study. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans carries with it one of God's supre...
THE FAR-REACHING RICHES OF GRACE Romans 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Romans leads us into the deepest mysteries of God and of grace. As we begin its study we feel that we are entering into ov...
THE GREAT SALVATION Romans 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's story of sin. The fifth chapter of Romans is God's great climactic of the theme of redemption. Earlier Chapter s of the Book of Romans set...
And patience works more experience of the sincerity of our grace, and of God's power and faithfulness....