Romans 5

Rejoicing in Suffering Romans 5:3–5

³Verse 3. Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴Verse 4. and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: ⁵Verse 5. and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Christ's Sacrificial Love Romans 5:6–8

⁶Verse 6. For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷Verse 7. For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. ⁸Verse 8. But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Reconciliation and Assurance Romans 5:9–11

⁹Verse 9. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. ¹⁰Verse 10. For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life. ¹¹Verse 11. Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Sin and Death through Adam Romans 5:12–14

¹²Verse 12. Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. ¹³Verse 13. For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. ¹⁴Verse 14. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

Contrast of Adam and Christ Romans 5:15–19

¹⁵Verse 15. But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. ¹⁶Verse 16. The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. ¹⁷Verse 17. For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Verse 18. So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. ¹⁹Verse 19. For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Abounding Grace and Righteousness Romans 5:20–21

²⁰Verse 20. The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; ²¹Verse 21. that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.