Because of his grace he made us right in his sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.
Parallel translations
- WEB that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- KJV That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- BSB so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
- NKJV that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- NASB so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Quick answer
Being justified by His grace, we become heirs with the hope of eternal life. It matters because grace not only forgives but makes us God's heirs of everlasting life.
Overview
Paul completes the thought: God's purpose in saving us is that, justified by grace, we become 'heirs according to the hope of eternal life.' Justification means being declared righteous freely through Christ. The result is a sure inheritance, the eternal life promised at the letter's opening (1:2).
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- Rom 8:17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
- Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- Rom 3:24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
- 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
- Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- Rom 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
- Rom 8:23–24Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
- Rom 5:1–2Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Rom 3:28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
- 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.
- Gal 4:7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- Heb 11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
- Heb 11:9By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
- Heb 6:17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Rom 4:4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
- Rom 5:15–21But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
- Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
- 1 Pet 3:7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
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