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Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
Romans 5:1 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • KJV Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • BSB Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • NKJV Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • NASB Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Quick answer

Because we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through Jesus Christ. The result of justification is reconciliation and rest.

Overview

Paul begins to unfold the fruits of justification, the first being 'peace with God,' an end to the enmity caused by sin. This peace is not a feeling we achieve but a settled relationship secured through our Lord Jesus Christ. Having established justification by faith in chapters 3 and 4, Paul now shows the rich blessings that flow from it.

Cross-references & the web

Theme

  • Hope"We have peace with God… and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."

Cross-references · 40

  • Isa 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
  • Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
  • Col 1:20and 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.
  • Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
  • Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
  • Eph 2:14–17For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
  • Rom 14:17for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
  • 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
  • Rom 4:5But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
  • Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
  • Rom 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
  • Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • 2 Cor 5:18–20But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
  • Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all —
  • Rom 5:9–10Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
  • Ps 85:8–10I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
  • Rom 5:18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
  • Luke 19:38saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
  • Luke 19:42saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Isa 27:5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
  • Jas 2:23–26and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.
  • Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Isa 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
  • Luke 10:5–6Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
  • Rom 10:10For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
  • John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • John 3:16–18For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • Isa 57:19–21I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
  • Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
  • Rom 3:30since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
  • Gal 3:11–14Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
  • Luke 2:14“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
  • Rom 4:24–25but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
  • Gal 5:4–6You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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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 5:1 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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