Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the

 

ROMANS

 

Reference Compiled by WD Kemner July 2024

 

 

Chapter 5

 

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:1-2

Topics: Access to God, Faith

 

1 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 God.

 

 

 

Access to God!  Simply by faith. The wonder of that amazing grace.

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:3-5

Topics: Trials, Patience, Hope

 

3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

 

4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

 

5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.          

 

 

 

Tribulation > Patience > Experience > Hope > not Ashamed

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:6-8

Topics: Christ Sacrifice - Salvation

 

6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

 

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

 

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

 

 

 

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:9-11

Topics: Reconciliation - Salvation

 

9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

 

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

 

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.    

 

 

 

Salvation by the life of Christ

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:12-14

Topics: Sin Origin

 

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

 

13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

 

14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.      

 

 

 

Sin began with Adam in the Garden of Eden and from there passed upon all future generations. We are all born in sin. Death was the payment of that sin.

 

“… figure of him that was to come.” = Jesus Christ

 

Jesus Christ = The Second Adam

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:15-17

Topics: Salvation a free gift

 

15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

 

16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

 

17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

 

 

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:18-19

Topics: Righteousness - Obedience of Christ to cross

 

18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

 

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.  

 

 

 

Obedience of Christ to go to the cross.

 

 

Passage: Romans 5:20-21

Topics: Grace

 

20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

 

21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.