Romans 5:9

THE MESSAGE

Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by his blood, will we be saved through him from wrath.

King James Version (1611)
Much more then being now iustified by his blood, we shalbe saued from wrath through him.

King James Version
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

English Standard Version
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

New American Standard Bible
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

New Century Version
So through Christ we will surely be saved from God's anger, because we have been made right with God by the blood of Christ's death.

Amplified Bible
Therefore, since we have now been justified [declared free of the guilt of sin] by His blood, [how much more certain is it that] we will be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!

Contemporary English Version
But there is more! Now that God has accepted us because Christ sacrificed his life's blood, we will also be kept safe from God's anger.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, since we have now come to be considered righteous by means of his bloody sacrificial death, how much more will we be delivered through him from the anger of God's judgment!

Darby Translation
Much rather therefore, having been now justified in [the power of] his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

Easy-to-Read Version
We have been made right with God by the blood sacrifice of Christ. So through Christ we will surely be saved from God's anger.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Much more then, being now iustified by his blood, we shalbe saued from wrath through him.

George Lamsa Translation
Much more then, being justified by his blood, we shall be delivered from wrath through him.

Good News Translation
By his blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger!

Lexham English Bible
Therefore, by much more, because we have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

Literal Translation
Much more then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him.

American Standard Version
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

Bible in Basic English
Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.

Hebrew Names Version
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

International Standard Version
Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!Romans 1:18; 3:25; Ephesians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Hebrews 9:14; 1 John 1:7;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
how much more, then, shall we be now justified through his blood, and by him be delivered from wrath?

Murdock Translation
how much more, shall we now be justified by his blood and be rescued from wrath by him?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Muche more then nowe, we that are iustified by his blood, shalbe saued from wrath through hym.

English Revised Version
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

World English Bible
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Weymouth's New Testament
If therefore we have now been pronounced free from guilt through His blood, much more shall we be delivered from God's anger through Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
aftir the tyme Crist was deed for vs, thanne myche more now we iustified in his blood, schulen be saaf fro wraththe bi him.

Update Bible Version
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath [of God] through him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

New English Translation
Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God's wrath.

New King James Version
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

New Living Translation
And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's condemnation.

New Life Bible
Now that we have been saved from the punishment of sin by the blood of Christ, He will save us from God's anger also.

New Revised Standard
Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Much more, then, having now been declared righteous by his blood, shall we be saved through him from the anger.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

Revised Standard Version
Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Moche more then now (seynge we are iustifyed in his bloud) shall we be saved from wrath thorow him.

Young's Literal Translation
much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Moch more then shal we be saued from wrath by him seynge we are now made righteous thorow his bloude.

Mace New Testament (1729)
much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come.

Simplified Cowboy Version
God has accepted us because of his Son's blood, we no longer have to fear God's anger.

Contextual Overview

⁶Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him. ⁹Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah! ¹²You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we're in—first sin, then death, and no one exempt from either sin or death. That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses. Even those who didn't sin precisely as Adam did by disobeying a specific command of God still had to experience this termination of life, this separation from God. But Adam, who got us into this, also points ahead to the One who will get us out of it. ¹⁵Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man's sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God's gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There's no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man's wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides? ¹⁸Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right. ²⁰All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

being: Romans 5:1, Romans 3:24-26, Ephesians 2:13, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 9:22, 1 John 1:7

we shall: Romans 5:10, Romans 1:18, Romans 8:1, Romans 8:30, John 5:24, 1 Thessalonians 1:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:11 - I have Numbers 16:46 - from off Isaiah 53:11 - justify Matthew 3:7 - flee Luke 11:13 - how Luke 22:32 - I have John 3:36 - but John 6:47 - He that John 10:28 - they Acts 13:39 - by Romans 3:25 - through Romans 5:2 - wherein Romans 8:17 - if children 1 Corinthians 6:11 - but ye are justified Galatians 2:16 - but Colossians 1:21 - sometime

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Much more then being now justified by his blood,.... The apostle here argues from justification by Christ to salvation by him, there being a certain and inseparable connection between these two; whoever is justified shall be saved; and speaks of justification "as being now by his blood". Justification in God's mind from eternity proceeded upon the suretyship engagements of Christ to be performed in time; the Old Testament saints were justified of God with a view to the blood of the Lamb which was to be shed; this blood was "now" shed, and an application of justification by it was "now" made to the persons spoken of; which is the reason of this way of speaking. The blood of Christ intends his death, as appears from the context, and shows it to be a violent death; death by the effusion of blood. There is an emphasis upon it, "his blood"; not the blood of bulls and goats, nor of a mere innocent creature, but of Christ the Son of God; which is therefore efficacious to all the purposes for which it was shed, and particularly justification. This being ascribed to it, shows the concern Christ had in it, his blood is here put for the whole matter of justification; the shedding of that being the finishing part of it; and that our justification before God proceeds upon the foot of a satisfaction made to the law and justice of God: hence such as are interested in it,

shall be saved from wrath through him: not from wrath, as a corruption in their own hearts, which oftentimes breaks forth; nor as appearing among the people of God one towards another, which is sometimes very bitter; or as in their avowed enemies, the effects of which they often feel; nor from the wrath of devils, which is as the roaring of a lion; but from the wrath of God, from a sense and apprehension of it in their own consciences, which the law works; from which justification by the blood of Christ frees them; though under first awakenings they feel it, and sometimes, under afflictive dispensations of Providence, are ready to fear it: and also from the infliction of vindictive wrath or punishment for sin; for though they are as deserving of it as others, yet as they are not appointed to it, so they are entirely delivered from it, through Christ's sustaining it in their room and stead: wherefore they are secure from it both in this life, and in the world to come.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Much more, then - It is much more reasonable to expect it. There are fewer obstacles in the way. If, when we were enemies, he overcame all that was in the way of our salvation; much more have we reason to expect that he will afford us protection now that we are his friends. This is one ground of the hope expressed in Romans 5:5.

Being now justified - Pardoned; accepted as his friends.

By his blood - By his death; Note, Romans 3:25. The fact that we are purchased by his blood, and sanctified by it, renders us sacred in the eye of God; bestows a value on us proportionate to the worth of the price of our redemption; and is a pledge that he will keep what has been so dearly bought.

Saved from wrath - From hell; from the punishment due to sin; Note, Romans 2:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 5:9. Much more then, being now justified — If Jesus Christ, in his endless comparison towards us gave his life for ours, while we were yet enemies; being now justified by his blood - by his death on the cross, and thus reconciled to God, we shall be saved from wrath - from punishment for past transgression, through him - by what he has thus suffered for us.