Romans 5:1

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being: Romans 5:9, Romans 5:18, Romans 1:17, Romans 3:22, Romans 3:26-28, Romans 3:30, Romans 4:5, Romans 4:24, Romans 4:25, Romans 9:30, Romans 10:10, Habakkuk 2:4, John 3:16-18, John 5:24, Acts 13:38, Acts 13:39, Galatians 2:16, Galatians 3:11-14, Galatians 3:25, Galatians 5:4-6, Philippians 3:9, James 2:23-26

we have: Romans 5:10, Romans 1:7, Romans 10:15, Romans 14:17, Romans 15:13, Romans 15:33, Job 21:21, Psalms 85:8-10, Psalms 122:6, Isaiah 27:5, Isaiah 32:17, Isaiah 54:13, Isaiah 55:12, Isaiah 57:19-21, Zechariah 6:13, Luke 2:14, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, Luke 19:38, Luke 19:42, John 14:27, John 16:33, Acts 10:36, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Ephesians 2:14-17, Colossians 1:20, Colossians 3:15, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 2 Thessalonians 3:16, Hebrews 13:20, James 2:23

through: Romans 6:23, John 20:31, Ephesians 2:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:1 - a sacrifice Leviticus 9:18 - a sacrifice Leviticus 26:6 - I will Numbers 6:26 - give thee Deuteronomy 27:7 - peace offerings Job 25:4 - How then Psalms 85:10 - righteousness Proverbs 3:2 - and peace Proverbs 3:17 - all Ecclesiastes 5:20 - because Song of Solomon 8:10 - favour Isaiah 9:6 - The Prince of Peace Isaiah 26:3 - wilt Isaiah 45:25 - the Lord Isaiah 53:11 - justify Ezekiel 16:63 - when Luke 7:50 - go Luke 18:14 - justified John 3:15 - whosoever John 3:18 - is not John 10:9 - the door Acts 10:43 - through Acts 16:31 - Believe Acts 20:21 - faith Acts 26:18 - faith Romans 2:10 - and peace Romans 3:17 - General Romans 3:25 - through Romans 3:28 - General Romans 4:16 - of faith Romans 6:11 - through Romans 8:1 - no Romans 8:6 - to be spiritually minded Romans 11:20 - and 1 Corinthians 6:11 - but ye are justified Ephesians 2:17 - and preached Philippians 2:1 - any consolation Philippians 4:7 - the peace Titus 3:7 - being Hebrews 4:3 - we Hebrews 7:2 - King of righteousness 1 Peter 3:11 - seek

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore being justified by faith,.... Not that faith is at the first of our justification; for that is a sentence which passed in the mind of God from all eternity, and which passed on Christ, and on all the elect considered in him, when he rose from the dead; see Romans 4:25; nor is it the chief, or has it the chief place in justification; it is not the efficient cause of it, it is God that justifies, and not faith; it is not the moving cause of it, that is the free grace of God; it is not the matter of it, that is the righteousness of Christ: we are not justified by faith, either as God's work in us, for, as such, it is a part of sanctification; nor as our work or act, as exercised by us, for then we should be justified by works, by something of our own, and have whereof to glory; but we are justified by faith objectively and relatively, as that relates to the object Christ, and his righteousness; or as it is a means of our knowledge, and perception of our justification by Christ's righteousness, and of our enjoying the comfort of it; and so we come to

have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle having set the doctrine of justification in a clear light, and fully proved that it is not by the works of men, but by the righteousness of God; and having mentioned the several causes of it, proceeds to consider its effects, among which, peace with God stands in the first place; and is so called, to distinguish it from peace with men, which persons, though justified by faith in Christ's righteousness, may not have; but are sure, having a sense of this, to find peace with God, even with him against whom they have sinned, whose law they have transgressed, and whose justice they have affronted; reconciliation for sin being made, and a justifying righteousness brought in, and this imputed and applied to them, they have that "peace of God", that tranquillity and serenity of mind, the same with "peace with God" here, "which passes all understanding", Philippians 4:7; and is better experienced than expressed: and this is all through our Lord Jesus Christ; it springs from his atoning sacrifice, and precious blood, by which he has made peace; and is communicated through the imputation of his righteousness, and the application of his blood; and is only felt and enjoyed in a way of believing, by looking to him as the Lord our righteousness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - οὖν oun Since we are thus justified, or as a consequence of being justified, we have peace.

Being justified by faith - See the notes at Romans 1:17; Romans 3:24; Romans 4:5.

We - That is, all who are justified. The apostle is evidently speaking of true Christians.

Have peace with God - see the note at John 14:27. True religion is often represented as peace with God; see Acts 10:36; Romans 8:6; Romans 10:15; Romans 14:17; Galatians 5:22; see also Isaiah 32:17.

“And the work of righteousness shall be peace,

And the effect of righteousness.

Quietness and assurance forever:”

This is called peace, because,

1. The sinner is represented as the enemy of God, Romans 8:7; Ephesians 2:16; James 4:4; John 15:18, John 15:24; John 17:14; Romans 1:30.

(2)The state of a sinner’s mind is far from peace. He is often agitated, alarmed, trembling. He feels that he is alienated from God. For,

“The wicked are like the troubled sea.

For it never can be at rest;

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.”

Isaiah 57:20.

The sinner in this state regards God as his enemy. He trembles when he thinks of his Law; fears his judgments; is alarmed when he thinks of hell. His bosom is a stranger to peace. This has been felt in all lands, alike under the thunders of the Law of Sinai among the Jews; in the pagan world; and in lands where the gospel is preached. It is the effect of an alarmed and troubled conscience.

(3) The plan of salvation by Christ reveals God as willing to be reconciled. He is ready to pardon, and to be at peace. If the sinner repents and believes, God can now consistently forgive him, and admit him to favor. It is therefore a plan by which the mind of God and of the sinner can become reconciled, or united in feeling and in purpose. The obstacles on the part of God to reconciliation, arising from his justice and Law, have been removed, and he is now willing to be at peace. The obstacles on the part of man, arising from his sin, his rebellion, and his conscious guilt, may be taken away, and he can now regard God as his friend.

(4) The effect of this plan, when the sinner embraces it, is to produce peace in his own mind. He experiences peace; a peace which the world gives not, and which the world cannot take away, Philippians 4:7; 1 Peter 1:8; John 16:22. Usually in the work of conversion to God, this peace is the first evidence that is felt of the change of heart. Before, the sinner was agitated and troubled. But often suddenly, a peace and calmness is felt, which is before unknown. The alarm subsides; the heart is calm; the fears die away, like the waves of the ocean after a storm. A sweet tranquillity visits the heart - a pure shining light, like the sunbeams that break through the opening clouds after a tempest. The views, the feelings, the desires are changed; and the bosom that was just before filled with agitation and alarm, that regarded God as its enemy, is now at peace with him, and with all the world.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ - By means of the atonement of the Lord Jesus. It is his mediation that has procured it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V.

The effects of justification by faith, peace with God, 1.

The joyous hope of eternal glory, 2.

Glorying in tribulations, 3.

And gaining thereby patience, experience, and hope, 4.

And having the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy

Spirit, 5.

The state of the world when Christ died for it, 6-10.

Jesus Christ is an atonement, 11.

Sin and death entered into the world by Adam's transgression,

and all became guilty before God, 12-14.

God's grace in sending Christ into the world to save fallen man,

15-19.

The law is brought in to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin,

20.

The grace of Christ is to be as extensive in its influences and

reign, as sin has been in its enslaving and destructive nature,

21.

NOTES ON CHAP. V.

Is the former chapter, the apostle, having proved that the believing Gentiles are justified in the same way with Abraham, and are, in fact, his seed, included with him in the promise and covenant; he judged this a proper place, as the Jews built all their glorying upon the Abrahamic covenant, to produce some of the chief of those privileges and blessings in which the Christian Gentile can glory, in consequence of his justification by faith. And he produces three particulars which, above all others, were adapted to this purpose.

1. The hope of eternal life, in which the law, wherein the Jew gloried, Romans 2:17, was defective, Romans 5:2.

2. The persecutions and sufferings to which Christians were exposed, Romans 5:3; Romans 5:4, and on account of which the Jews were greatly prejudiced against the Christian profession: but he shows that these had a happy tendency to establish the heart in the hope of the Gospel.

3. An interest in God, as our GOD and FATHER-a privilege upon which the Jews valued themselves highly above all nations, Romans 5:11.

These three are the singular privileges belonging to the Gospel state, wherein true Christians may glory, as really belonging to them, and greatly redounding, if duly understood and improved, to their honour and benefit.

Verse Romans 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith — The apostle takes it for granted that he has proved that justification is by faith, and that the Gentiles have an equal title with the Jews to salvation by faith. And now he proceeds to show the effects produced in the hearts of the believing Gentiles by this doctrine. We are justified-have all our sins pardoned by faith, as the instrumental cause; for, being sinners, we have no works of righteousness that we can plead.

We have peace with God — Before, while sinners, we were in a state of enmity with God, which was sufficiently proved by our rebellion against his authority, and our transgression of his laws; but now, being reconciled, we have peace with God. Before, while under a sense of the guilt of sin, we had nothing but terror and dismay in our own consciences; now, having our sin forgiven, we have peace in our hearts, feeling that all our guilt is taken away. Peace is generally the first-fruits of our justification.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ — His passion and death being the sole cause of our reconciliation to God.