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Romans 5

the epistle of paul the apostle to the romans
Paul · c. 57 AD
Chapter the Fifth

Justified by Faith: The Adam-Christ Parallel

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For 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.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Wherefore, 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:
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless 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.
But 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.
And 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.
For 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.)
Therefore 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.
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
That 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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Verses 1-21 Having been justified by faith he begins to speak of the results in our own personal life and experience; that which I have experienced because of justification by faith. The first benefit or blessing of justification by faith is that, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ ( Romans 5:1 ). Something that would not be possible if I were justified by works that is possible for any length of period. As Christians there is, it seems, an inconsistency at times between my profession and my walk. I do not always do those things that are pleasing unto the Father. I cannot with Jesus say, "I do always those things that please the Father." I wish I could. I can't. Sometimes my works are outstanding. Sometimes I do extremely well. Other times I fail. Now, if I were justified by works, then I would have peace with God as long as I was doing good. But when I failed, that peace would again be broken. But because I am justified by faith, I do believe in Jesus Christ; that doesn't change. I believe that He is the Son of, that He came to redeem the world, that He died for my sins, that He arose again the third day, and He is at the right hand of the Father making intercession for me, and I believe that He is coming again to establish God's kingdom on the earth. Sometimes I don't do what is right, but my belief never changes. Even when I am doing something wrong, I still have a solid faith in Jesus Christ. Therefore, because my peace with God is predicated upon justification by faith I have always peace with God. As we studied last week, Paul's quotation of Psalm 32 , "Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." Because I am justified by faith, my faith in Jesus Christ is unswerving, God does not impute or account iniquity to me. I have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Secondly, This glorious grace that God has manifested unto me, I have access into that grace through faith. Then I How wonderful it is that God has given to us this living hope through Jesus Christ. That is something that today the world's philosophy cannot offer to man. The existential philosophy has concluded that there is no universal good, that there is no universal truth. That truth must be experienced individually and it is how you see a thing and how you feel about a thing that constitutes truth to you. But it is a personal individual matter. We can see examples of existentialism in art, the modern art, as you look at the paintings where it looks like some fellow has stood across the room and taken little plastic bags full of paint and thrown them against the canvas, and they exploded when they hit the canvas and popped out in all directions, and then they give some kind of a title to the thing, "Sunset at Maui." I have looked at some of those modern art paintings, and for the life of me I can't see anything in them. Someone stands there and says, "Oh, isn't that beautiful? Oh isn't that lovely?" It is one of those things that you have got to see it yourself and interpret yourself. Now, when I was a kid we used to have Spanish stucco on the ceiling, and we used to see horses and things in the ceiling, but it takes a bit of imagination. You see the effect of it, you have to experience it, you interpret it for yourself, that is the whole ideal and the purpose of the art is to express the philosophy. Coming home from Hawaii, my wife and I watched some dumb movie and it was one of those movies that they didn't put the end on it. You know the guy just goes walking off. Now, I don't know if he committed suicide or he sobered up and got right. You don't know what happened. They didn't finish the story; suddenly you see the end. Man, that's not the end, they didn't finish it. I was so mad that I wasted the time watching the unfinished story, but that again is a classic example of existential philosophy. And its purpose is to let you experience it and you put the end on the story. The story has a thousand different ends. Because each of us sees in it what we want to see. We, each of us, interpret it for ourselves. Some of the modern music today is existentialism. I can't for the life of me find the melody. All I get is the beat, and you have to put in what you want. They provide the beat and you put in the melody. These are all examples of existential philosophy. Now, the result then of existential philosophy is a separation of people. It creates loneliness and isolation. It puts me in my own little island and you in your own little island, and I don't know if I am thinking what you are thinking, and you don't know if you are thinking as I am thinking, because we are alienated by the philosophy. I don't know if you are seeing in that picture what I am seeing. Now you know there are forms of art when you see the barn, and therefore and the cow on the fields and I have no problem with that. I can say that is a barn and that is a fence and that is a cow. I have no problem with that, and I know that when you look at it you can see a barn, and a fence, and a cow, because they are obvious. I am unified with you. As we stand there and look at it, I feel unified with you because I know you are seeing the same thing I'm seeing. So the effect of existential is that of separation of man and making man isolated on an island. As each of us interpret life and truth as we experience it ourselves, but declaring that there is no universal truth or there is no universal good, that it is a matter of a person's individual experience, they have despaired of ever discovering truth or good. Existential philosophy has concluded that reality can only bring despair and a person cannot live in despair, thus you must escape reality. And we see a world full of people trying to escape reality. They are trying to escape in so many different things, into nomadism, into drugs, into alcoholism, into impulsive eating, impulsive gambling, or so many ways by which a person is seeking to escape the world in which he lives. Existential philosophy suggests that a person take a leap of faith into a non-reason religious experience. Because you cannot live in reality because that is hopeless. You either escape reality, or you have some kind of a religious experience. That again is very unique and isolated. You can't explain it, but there is a sense, a consciousness of well-being. They talk about the ultimate experience. We do have a hope. We can be real people. We can live in reality. As a Christian I can live in reality and I realize that the world is corrupt. I realize that government has failed. I realize that we have not and will not discover the solutions for world peace. And I agree with the existential philosophers that if you think we are going to discover world peace, you are not a realist. You are not living in reality. You are living in a fool's paradise. Reality would bring me to despair if I didn't have the hope of Jesus Christ. Because I have a hope in Jesus Christ, I can face the reality of life, but still rejoice in the hope because I know that when He comes we are going to live in a world of peace. We are going to live in a world where we don't have to worry about our grandchildren going to the market to buy a loaf of bread, being exposed to pornography or being exposed to the possibility of being accosted by some pervert. That world is coming, it isn't now. And as long as Satan reigns it never will be. Satan isn't going to reign forever, thank God. Jesus is coming and is going to establish God's kingdom, and we shall sing the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever, forever, hallelujah, hallelujah. It will be cause for great praise. I rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. I have tonight a living hope for the future. Not in man, but in Jesus Christ and in God's kingdom. Not only so, this isn't all, he says, What kind of a nut are you, Paul, to glory in tribulations? Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount said, "Rejoice when men speak evil of you, for my name's sake. When men persecute you for righteousness sake. Blessed are you when men shall persecute you for righteousness sake, rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven. The Bible tells us to count it all joy when you fall into diverse problems. I haven't achieved that yet, but I am working on it. We glory in tribulation. How is it that I can glory in tribulation? I glory in tribulation because I have learned that in every trial there is an opportunity for God to manifest Himself in my life, and to work in my life. I have learned when there is pressure, when there are problems to just wait on the Lord. It took me a long time to learn that. Right now we are waiting upon the Lord in regards to the bid we made upon the site in Newport Beach. The school board tells us that in two weeks that they will make their decision. I can honestly say that I am not tense. I am not nervous. I am not really concerned. If we get it, we get it; if we don't, we don't. When we bought the Greenville School from the Santa Ana School District, we put in a bid and we didn't even go to the board meeting where they were going to have the oral bids once they had opened the sealed bids that had come in. We just submitted a bid on a school and let it go at that. One morning the school secretary called me and said, "You just bought a school." I said, "Well, praise the Lord." In these times we have an opportunity to wait on God and see Him work, thus, Because as I wait upon God, I experience the work of God. I see God work. I learn by experience that God does work in every situation where we just wait on Him. I experience that work of God, and as I experience God's faithfulness in working out my problems, it only then enhances that hope. So I glory in tribulation because I know there is another opportunity for God to work in my life, for me to experience afresh God's love and God's grace as He works in my situation. As I see the work of God completed, my hope just gets stronger. Yes, God is faithful. Yes, God will keep His word. Yes, the Lord will establish His kingdom that He promised. the experience, hope: and the hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us ( Romans 5:4-5 ). So I have this glorious hope as God just pours out His love over my life through the Holy Spirit. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died ( Romans 5:6 ) For the good, sweet, wonderful, generous, kind people? No. Fortunately He died Oh, may the Holy Spirit take and stamp this truth deep in our hearts tonight. Christ died for the ungodly. I qualify. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us ( Romans 5:7-8 ). When did God start loving you? When you surrendered your life to Jesus Christ? When you raised your hand and you went forward? When you said the sinner's prayer? Did God say, "Oh, isn't that sweet? I am going to love them now." No, God commended or displayed His love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly. Because He died for us in that ungodly state, I have no place in myself whereof to boast. Well, the Lord died for me because He saw that I was doing my best. He knew I was trying hard; He knew I had potential? No! The grace of God is complete. Christ died for me when I was still a sinner, when I was in an ungodly state God loved me then. Now does God love you any less now that you are His child? Isn't it interesting how so often we in our minds imagine God as being disgusted with us, or disappointed with us, or discouraged with us, or through with us. We can just imagine God having negative attitudes towards us. I have shared before how when Jan was just a little girl and she was going through that nobody-loves-me routine. After she had been reprimanded for something and at that point none of her friends loved her, and her mother and daddy didn't love her, nobody loved her. We said, "Oh, yes, we love you." "No, you don't." She wasn't giving in so I finally said, "Well, Jesus loves you." "Oh, no, He doesn't." I said, "What?" "He just stuck His head out from one of the closets and stuck His tongue out at me." You know, sometimes we imagine Jesus doing that to us, like He has had it with us. And I can understand Him doing it, but He doesn't. If while I was yet a sinner He died for me. God demonstrated, commended, displayed His love toward me in that while I was still a sinner Christ died for me. Now that I am a child of God, now that I am trying to live a life that is pleasing to Him, now that I seek to walk in fellowship and in that love, surely He doesn't love me any less. God commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him ( Romans 5:9 ). That is, that wrath of God that shall be revealed against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men that Paul spoke about in chapter 1. He shall be saved from wrath. It is interesting that the Great Tribulation is called "the day of God's wrath." In the opening of the sixth seal, as the people on earth cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them, they pray, "Hide us from the face of the Lamb, for the day of His wrath has come," but thank God if Jesus loved me when I was a sinner and died for me, how much more being justified now by His blood will I be saved from the wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, [an enemy to God, if in that state] we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life ( Romans 5:10 ). If His death could reconcile me to God, how much more His life as He lives to make intercession for me. Notice there are several "much more" in this chapter, and I love the "much more." It is an argument from the lesser to the greater. It is a typical philosophical type of argument. Paul uses it often in his writings. And here, if through the death of Jesus I was reconciled to God, how much more shall I be saved by His life. Now this comes back to verse Romans 5:1 , "Therefore being justified by faith," and this is the final experience that Paul illustrates or gives to us the final result. not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement ( Romans 5:11 ).

Commentary on Romans 5

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

Romans 5:1

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
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Romans 5:2

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:3

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:4

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:5

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
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Romans 5:6

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
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Romans 5:7

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:8

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:9

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:10

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
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Romans 5:11

Therefore, the logical consequence of chapters 1-4, being justified by faith we have peace with God. The enmity that sin produced (Romans 8:7) is resolved. The access that was blocked is now open. The standing, this grace in which we stand, is secure. And we boast in tribulations: kauchōmetha en tais thlipsesin. Not merely endure, not merely accept. Boast. Because the process is productive: tribulation produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Thread 1 arrives at its NT christological center: while we were yet without strength, eti asthenōn, Christ died for the ungodly. While we were yet sinners, eti hamartōlōn, Christ died for us. The timing is the theology. God demonstrates his love in this: not after we improved, not conditional on improvement, while we were in the condition that required the dying. Thread 6 is in the love poured into hearts by the Holy Spirit, the in-Christ union producing an interior experience of what was accomplished externally at the cross.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the timing is the theology: not after we cleaned up, not after we proved worthy, but while we were still in the condition that required the dying; the initiative is entirely God's.
ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν (eti hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn Christos huper hēmōn apethanen): while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: eti (still, yet, temporal; the condition persists at the moment of the dying); hamartōlōn ontōn hēmōn (we being sinners, genitive absolute, our sinful condition being the circumstance); huper hēmōn (on behalf of us, for our sake, the substitutionary preposition); apethanen (he died, aorist, completed historical act) · ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν (hē agapē tou theou ekkechutai en tais kardiais hēmōn): the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts: ekkechutai (perfect passive of ekcheō, to pour out; perfect tense: it has been poured out and remains poured out); en tais kardiais hēmōn (in our hearts, the interior, the personal); the love of God is not a doctrine to be believed but a reality poured into the inner life of the believer by the Holy Spirit
threads t1 · t4 · t6 · see John 3:16 · Ephesians 2:4-5 · 1 John 4:10

Romans 5:12

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
threads t1 · t4 · t5 · t7 · see Genesis 3:17-19 · 1 Corinthians 15:22 · 1 Corinthians 15:45

Romans 5:13

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:14

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:15

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:16

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
threads t1 · t4 · t5 · t7 · see Genesis 3:17-19 · 1 Corinthians 15:22 · 1 Corinthians 15:45

Romans 5:17

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:18

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:19

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:20

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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Romans 5:21

Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and death spread to all because all sinned. Paul's argument in Romans 5:12-21 requires a historical Adam and a historical Fall, 1 Corinthians 15:22 and 45 make this explicit: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive. If Adam is a myth, the parallel with Christ collapses. Thread 5 is the dispensational historical-literal reading: Genesis 3 is history, not allegory. But not as the trespass, so also the free gift. The gift is asymmetrical: it exceeds the damage. Much more, pollō mallon, the grace of God and the gift in grace abounded. Where sin increased, grace super-abounded. The damage of one man's disobedience is real and total; the provision of one man's obedience is more than sufficient to meet it. As through one man's trespass judgment came to all men, so through one man's act of righteousness the free gift came to all men unto justification of life. The parallel in scope, all men, is Thread 7's atonement argument in its most compressed form. The judgment that spread to all through Adam; the provision that is offered to all through Christ. The atonement is sufficient for all because the problem it addresses is universal.
By one man's offence judgment came upon all men: by one man's righteousness the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life; the scope of Adam's damage and the scope of Christ's remedy are matched.
δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν (di' henos anthrōpou hē hamartia eis ton kosmon eisēlthen): by one man sin entered into the world: henos anthrōpou (one man, the historical Adam; Paul's argument requires a literal historical Adam as the source of sin's entrance; the parallel with one man Christ requires the symmetry of one man Adam); eisēlthen (entered, aorist active; a definite historical event, not a mythological process) · πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι (pollō mallon hē charis tou theou kai hē dōrea en chariti): much more the grace of God and the gift by grace: pollō mallon (much more, by much more, far more, the comparative intensifier Paul uses repeatedly in this passage; where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; the gift is always greater than the offense it addresses)
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