Romans 5

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¹Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ✦ ²through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. ✦ ³Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ✦ ⁴perseverance, character; and character, hope. ✦ ⁵And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. ✦ ⁶For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. ✦ ⁷Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. ✦ ⁸But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ✦ ⁹Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! ✦ ¹⁰For 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! ✦ ¹¹Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. ✦ ¹²Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. ✦ ¹³For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. ✦ ¹⁴Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come. ✦ ¹⁵But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! ✦ ¹⁶Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. ✦ ¹⁷For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! ✦ ¹⁸So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men. ✦ ¹⁹For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. ✦ ²⁰The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ✦ ²¹so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Rom 5 ·30 Rom 8 ·16 Rom 3 ·10 Rom 6 ·10 Rom 4 ·9 Eph 2 ·9 1 Cor 15 ·7 John 10 ·6

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 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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SermonGrace to You — John MacArthurJohn MacArthur · Free · reformed
Decades of careful verse-by-verse expository sermons, especially through the New Testament. (MacArthur, d. 2025; archive remains free.)
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Tim Keller's gospel-centered preaching — sermons stream free (the complete downloadable archive is paid).
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Romans 5David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on RomansMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
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