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For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.
Romans 5:10 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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.
  • KJV 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.
  • BSB For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
  • NKJV For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
  • NASB For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

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Quick answer

If God reconciled us as enemies through Christ's death, his life will surely save us. Reconciliation now guarantees final salvation.

Overview

Paul reinforces the previous verse: we were reconciled to God 'while we were enemies' through Christ's death, so 'much more' will we be saved by his risen life. The living, interceding Christ ensures the completion of our salvation. This double 'much more' (verses 9-10) anchors the believer's confidence in God's persevering grace.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • 2 Cor 5:18–19But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
  • 2 Cor 4:10–11always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
  • Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
  • Col 1:20–21and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
  • Eph 2:16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
  • Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
  • Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • Col 3:3–4For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • John 10:28–29I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
  • Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
  • 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
  • Lev 6:30No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
  • Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
  • Heb 2:17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
  • John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
  • Ezek 45:20So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you shall make atonement for the house.
  • John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  • 2 Chr 29:24Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
  • John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
  • Rom 5:11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
  • Rom 11:28Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

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Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

How Romans 5:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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