Justification Offers Peace and Hope
Romans 5Therefore having been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into the grace in which we stand. We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance, and perseverance character, and character hope. And hope does not shame us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will one die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love toward us in this: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, because we have been now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of ʜɪꜱ Son, how much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
Not only that, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Sin and Death versus Grace and Life
Therefore, just as sin entered into the world through one human, and death through sin, so death passed to all humans because all sinned. For before the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not counted when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same form as the violation of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come.
But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died by the transgression of the one, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one human, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not like what came through the one sinner, for the judgment came from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but the gracious gift came from many transgressions resulting in justification. For if by one transgression, death reigned through the one, how much more will the receivers of the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
Therefore just as through one transgression all humans were condemned, so also through one act of righteousness, a righteousness leading to life came to all humans. Just as many were made sinners through the one human’s disobedience, so many will also be made righteous through the obedience of the one. The law came in that the transgression might abound, but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly, so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.