# Romans 05 📖: Peace With God [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Romans Overview]] | [[Romans 04]] | [[Romans 06]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Expectation of Justification **Principle**: The process from suffering to hope. [[#Verse 01.]]  Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,  [[#Verse 02.]] through whom we have also obtained access into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.  [[#Verse 03.]] Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,  [[#Verse 04.]] and endurance, character, and character, hope.  [[#Verse 05.]] And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. ### The Justified Are Reconciled **Principle**: Jesus’ great love conquers sins and the requirements of the law. [[#Verse 06.]] For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  [[#Verse 07.]] (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)  [[#Verse 08.]] But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  [[#Verse 09.]] Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. [[# Verse 09]] Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.  [[#Verse 10.]] For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?  [[#Verse 11.]] Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation. ### The Amplification of Justification **Principle**: Adam = off course. Jesus = set things right again. [[#Verse 12.]] So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned—  [[#Verse 13.]] for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.  [[#Verse 14.]] Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.  [[#Verse 15.]] But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!  [[#Verse 16.]] And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.  [[#Verse 17.]] For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ! [[#Verse 18.]] Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people. [[# Verse 18]] Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.  [[#Verse 19.]] For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be constituted righteous. [[#Verse 20.]] Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, [[#Verse 21.]] so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. The "therefore" in 5:1 marks a turn. Having shown how we are justified, Paul now describes the blessings that follow. 2. Some ancient manuscripts of 5:1 read "let us have peace with God" instead of "we have peace," because the two Greek words differ by a single vowel (*echomen* and *echōmen*). 3. The word for "access" in 5:2 (*prosagōgē*) was used for being brought into the presence of a king. 4. "Endurance" (*hypomonē*, 5:3) describes remaining under a heavy load rather than escaping it. 5. "Character" (*dokimē*, 5:4) means proven quality, the result of being tested, like metal tested by fire. 6. Paul notes that someone will rarely die even for a righteous person (5:7), which shows how unusual Christ's love is, since He died for the ungodly (5:6). 7. "Reconciliation" (*katallagē*) was used for restoring a broken relationship. In the New Testament, only Paul uses this word group for God and people. 8. Adam is called "a type of the coming one" (5:14). The Greek *typos* means a pattern or imprint. 9. The phrase "much more" repeats through the chapter (5:9, 10, 15, 17), stressing that Christ's work is greater than Adam's failure. 10. In 5:20 Paul says grace "multiplied all the more," using a compound Greek word (*hyperperisseuō*) meaning to overflow beyond measure. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the last Adam whose one act of obedience brings righteousness and life to many (5:18-19). While we were still sinners He died for us (5:8), reconciling us to God (2 Corinthians 5:18). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Paul says suffering produces endurance, character, and hope (5:3-4). How have you seen God use a hard season to grow you? 2. Christ died for us while we were still sinners (5:8). How does that change the way you think about God's love on your worst days? 3. Paul compares Adam and Christ (5:12-21). What does it mean that we were once in Adam but can now be in Christ? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 1: Since we are declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 📖 verses 3-5: Suffering produces endurance, character, and hope, and hope does not disappoint, because God's love has been poured into our hearts by the Spirit. - 📖 verse 8: God demonstrates His love for us: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - 📖 verse 12: Sin entered the world through one man, and death spread to all people. - 📖 verse 19: Through one man's disobedience many were made sinners; through one man's obedience many will be made righteous. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Genesis 02#Verse 16.|Genesis 2:16-17]] - God warns Adam that eating from the tree will bring death. - 🔗 [[Genesis 03#Verse 01.|Genesis 3:1-19]] - The fall of Adam and Eve and the curse that followed. - 🔗 [[Isaiah 53#Verse 11.|Isaiah 53:11]] - The righteous Servant will make many righteous. - 🔗 [[John 03#Verse 16.|John 3:16]] - God so loved the world that He gave His only Son. - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 15#Verse 21.|1 Corinthians 15:21-22]] - In Adam all die; in Christ all will be made alive. - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 15#Verse 45.|1 Corinthians 15:45-49]] - The first Adam and the last Adam. - 🔗 [[Ephesians 02#Verse 13.|Ephesians 2:13-18]] - Christ is our peace, bringing us near to God. - 🔗 [[Colossians 01#Verse 20.|Colossians 1:20-22]] - Reconciled to God through the blood of the cross. - 🔗 [[James 01#Verse 02.|James 1:2-4]] - Trials produce endurance and maturity. - 🔗 [[1 Peter 03#Verse 18.|1 Peter 3:18]] - Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God. - 🔗 [[1 John 04#Verse 09.|1 John 4:9-10]] - God's love shown in sending His Son as the sacrifice for our sins. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Romans 5 - SOAP|Problems Bring Hope]] ## 📂 Internal Notes [[SeriesOverview- The Mission (Romans)]]