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Text -- Romans 5:3-21 (NET)
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5:3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings , knowing that suffering produces endurance ,
5:4 and endurance , character , and character , hope .
5:5 And hope does not disappoint , because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us .
5:6 For while we were still helpless , at the right time Christ died for the ungodly .
5:7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person , though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die .)
5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us , in that while we were still sinners , Christ died for us .
5:9 Much more then , because we have now been declared righteous by his blood , we will be saved through him from God’s wrath .
5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son , how much more , since we have been reconciled , will we be saved by his life ?
5:11 Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ , through whom we have now received this reconciliation .
The Amplification of Justification
5:12 So then , just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin , and so death spread to all people because all sinned –
5:13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world , but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law .
5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed .
5:15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression . For if the many died through the transgression of the one man , how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many !
5:16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned . For judgment , resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation , but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification .
5:17 For if , by the transgression of the one man , death reigned through the one , how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one , Jesus Christ !
5:18 Consequently , just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression , so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people .
5:19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners , so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous .
5:20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase , but where sin increased , grace multiplied all the more ,
5:21 so that just as sin reigned in death , so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Justification |
Sin |
Romans, Epistle to the |
Atonement |
Rome |
GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
IMPUTATION |
ADAM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
MEDIATION; MEDIATOR |
Propitiation |
Jesus, The Christ |
PSYCHOLOGY |
GUILT |
CREED; CREEDS |
Grace of God |
Salvation |
Covenant |
Adam |
RECONCILE; RECONCILIATION |
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NET Notes -> Rom 5:3; Rom 5:5; Rom 5:5; Rom 5:7; Rom 5:9; Rom 5:9; Rom 5:9; Rom 5:11; Rom 5:11; Rom 5:12; Rom 5:12; Rom 5:13; Rom 5:13; Rom 5:14; Rom 5:14; Rom 5:15; Rom 5:15; Rom 5:16; Rom 5:16; Rom 5:16; Rom 5:16; Rom 5:17; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:18; Rom 5:19; Rom 5:19; Rom 5:19; Rom 5:19; Rom 5:20; Rom 5:20
NET Notes: Rom 5:3 Here δέ (de) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
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NET Notes: Rom 5:5 On the OT background of the Spirit being poured out, see Isa 32:15; Joel 2:28-29.
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NET Notes: Rom 5:12 The translation of the phrase ἐφ᾿ ᾧ (ef Jw) has been heavily debated. For a discussion of all the possibilities, see C. E. B. C...
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