Peace with God Through Faith

Romans 5

1 a Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, b we 1 have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also c obtained access by faith 2 into this grace d in which we stand, and e we 3 rejoice 4 in hope of the glory of God. 3 More than that, we f rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering g produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and h hope does not put us to shame, because God's love i has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

6 For j while we were still weak, at the right time k Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die - 8 but l God shows his love for us in that m while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, n we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from o the wrath of God. 10 For if p while we were enemies q we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by r his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received s reconciliation.

  1. Cross References
    Romans 3:28
    For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
  2. Cross References
    Romans 15:13
    May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
    Hebrews 12:28
    Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.
  3. Cross References
    Ephesians 2:18
    For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
    Ephesians 3:12
    In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
    Hebrews 10:19 - 20
    Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.
    1 Peter 3:18
    For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:1
    Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand.
  5. Cross References
    Romans 5:11
    More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
    Hebrews 3:6
    But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
    Romans 12:12
    Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
  6. Cross References
    Matthew 5:12
    Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  7. Cross References
    Luke 21:19
    By your endurance you will gain your lives.
    James 1:3
    For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 119:116
    Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
    Philippians 1:20
    As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
  9. Cross References
    Acts 2:17 - 18
    'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
    Acts 2:33
    Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
    Titus 3:6
    Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
    Galatians 4:6
    And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
  10. Cross References
    Romans 5:8
    But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    Romans 5:10
    For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
    Hosea 13:9
    He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
    Ephesians 2:5
    Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved -
  11. Cross References
    Romans 4:25
    Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
  12. Cross References
    John 3:16
    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
  13. Cross References
    Romans 5:6
    For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
    Romans 5:10
    For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
  14. Cross References
    Romans 3:25
    Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
  15. Cross References
    1 Thessalonians 1:10
    And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
    1 Thessalonians 2:16
    By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
    Romans 1:18
    For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
  16. Cross References
    Romans 5:6
    For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
    Romans 5:8
    But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    Colossians 1:21
    And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds.
    Romans 8:32
    He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
  17. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 5:18 - 20
    All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
    Ephesians 2:16
    And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
    Colossians 1:20 - 21
    And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
  18. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 4:10 - 11
    Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
  19. Cross References
    Romans 11:15
    For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
    2 Corinthians 5:18 - 19
    All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
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