Romans 5

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¹Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: ✦ ²By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ✦ ³And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; ✦ ⁴And patience, experience; and experience, hope: ✦ ⁵And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ✦ ⁶For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. ✦ ⁷For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. ✦ ⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ✦ ⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. ✦ ¹⁰For 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. ✦ ¹¹And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. ✦ ¹²Wherefore, 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. ✦ ¹⁴Nevertheless 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. ✦ ¹⁵But 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. ✦ ¹⁶And 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. ✦ ¹⁷For 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.) ✦ ¹⁸Therefore 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. ✦ ¹⁹For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. ✦ ²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: ✦ ²¹That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by 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.

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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.)
SermonGospel in Life — Tim KellerTim Keller · Free · reformed
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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