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Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Verse Romans 5:3. _AND NOT ONLY SO_] We are not only happy from being in this state of communion with our God, and the prospect of being eternally with him; _BUT WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO_] All t...
AND NOT ONLY SO - We not only rejoice in times of prosperity, and of health. Paul proceeds to show that this plan is not less adapted to produce support in trials. BUT WE GLORY - The word used here is...
CHAPTER 5:1-11 1. What Justification Includes. 1-11. The blessed results of justification are next revealed. What justified believers possess and what they may enjoy is the theme of the opening verse...
THE FRUITS OF JUSTIFYING FAITH. Romans 5:1_ a_. Since then we have been justified, etc., recapitulates Romans 3:22 to Romans 4:25. The apodosis (according to the best-attested reading, RV) is hortator...
Since, then, we have been put into a right relationship with God in consequence of faith, let us enjoy peace with him through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, by faith, we are in possession of an i...
AT HOME WITH GOD (Romans 5:1-5)...
GLORY... ALSO. rejoice (as Romans 5:2) also in &c. TRIBULATIONS. the afflictions. Greek. _thlipsis._ See Acts 7:10. KNOWING. App-132. WORKETH. See Romans 1:27....
_but we glory_ For the present, St Paul puts the eternal future out of view again, in order that present grace may be better explained. "_We glory:_" same word as "rejoice" in Romans 5:2. Wonderful is...
Romans 5:1-11. Introduction, describing the nature of the state in which we are, under the power of the Gospel: (1) Since, then, we are justified by GOD on the single condition of faith, let us mainta...
ΟΥ̓ ΜΌΝΟΝ ΔΈ, ἈΛΛᾺ. Romans 5:11; Romans 8:23; Romans 9:10; 2 Corinthians 8:19; cf....
ΚΑΊ (G2532) также, ΈΝ ΤΑΪ́Σ ΘΛΊΨΕΣΙΝ (G1722; G3588; G2347) В лишениях. Это слово относится к угнетению, трудностям, страданиям и горю, вызванным внешними обстоятельствами (SH; TDNT; Trench, Synonyms...
DISCOURSE: 1840 BENEFITS ARISING FROM A JUSTIFYING FAITH Romans 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into...
_TEXT_ Romans 5:1-11. Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; Romans 5:2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we...
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; AND NOT ONLY [SO] BUT WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO - not, surely, for their own sake, for as such th...
_JUSTIFICATION-INDIVIDUAL_ 13 As further developed in Galatians, the law was not given till hundreds of years after Abraham was counted righteous. The promises he received in connection with it were...
GOD'S SALVATION AND THE RESULTS OF ITS ACCEPTANCE St. Paul completes his exposition of acceptance by faith by pointing to its blessed effects (Romans 5:1). In the following vv. he compares sin and acc...
WE GLORY, etc.] RV 'let us also rejoice in our tribulations': cp. Acts 14:22. WORKETH] i.e. brings about. PATIENCE] i.e. bearing up under great trials without losing heart....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 THE *BLESSINGS THAT WE RECEIVE BECAUSE OF GOD’S *GRACE 5:1-11 V1 We are *righteous because of our *faith. So we are...
V. (1-11) A description of the serene and blissful state which the sense of justification brings. Faith brings justification; justification brings (let us see that it _does_ bring) peace — peace with...
But much more than this. The Christian’s glorying is not confined to the future; it embraces the present as well. It extends even to what would naturally be supposed to be the very opposite of a groun...
A climax in which are put forward higher and higher grades of fortitude and constancy....
CHAPTER 12 PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY FOR THE JUSTIFIED Romans 5:1 WE reached a pause in the Apostle's thought with the close of the last paragraph. We may reverently imagine, as in spirit we listen to hi...
The blessings of Justification. The first section of the epistle (chap. Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20) has proved man's need of the righteousness of God; the second (chap. Romans 3:21-30) has shown how t...
οὐ μόνον δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ καυχώμεθα : and not only (do we glory on that footing), but we also glory in tribulations. _Cf._ James 1:2 ff. ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσιν does not simply mean “when we are in tribulations,”...
GREAT BLESSINGS THROUGH CHRIST Romans 5:1 We stand in grace; we look for glory. Our standing is sure, although apart from our feelings or deserts. It is ours forever, through union with the living Ch...
The apostle now dealt with the values of justification. The value to the individual is a threefold blessing. This nature as to cause the heart to rejoice. The apostle now showed the difference between...
(4) And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: (5) knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (4) Tribulation itself gives us different and various occasions to rejoice, and more than this...
We glory in spirit in the afflictions, oppression, and persecution, which we suffer as Christians, esteeming them a great blessing. Thus the apostles went rejoicing from before the council, because th...
“ _And not only so, but we triumph on account of tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh constancy; and approval; and hope._ ” This passage being, strictly speaking, the answer to an unexp...
ELEVENTH PASSAGE (5:1-11). THE CERTAINTY OF FINAL SALVATION FOR BELIEVERS. The title which we have just given to this piece suffices to indicate the difference between the idea which we form of its sc...
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (2) By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_PRESENT PRIVILEGES OF THE JUSTIFIED_ ‘Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.… And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad i...
3._Not only so_, _etc. _That no one might scoffingly object and say, that Christians, with all their glorying, are yet strangely harassed and distressed in this life, which condition is far from being...
Thus, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Remark here also the difference of Abraham's faith and ours. He believed God could perform what He promised. We are called to believe He has per...
AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO,.... The tribulations of the saints are many and various, through the hatred of the world, the temptations of Satan, their own corruptions; and are t...
And not only _so_, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; Ver. 3. _We glory in tribulations_] As an old soldier doth in his scars of honour. SeeGalatians 6:17;...
_And not only so_ Not only do we possess the four fore- mentioned inestimable blessings; _but we glory in tribulations also_ Which we are so far from esteeming a mark of God's displeasure, that we rec...
TRIBULATIONS; trials-not because they are pleasant, but because they are useful. PATIENCE; in the old sense of endurance-the quality of bearing suffering with calmness and unwavering fortitude....
BLESSINGS ATTENDING JUSTIFICATION Now as to the _means_ and _assurance_ of present justification, every question has been answered, every doubt fully banished by simple, straightforward truth. Thus ev...
ROMANS 5:1-11 What saves us? Verse What saves? Other things Scripture 1 Faith Repentance Acts 17:30 2 Grace of God Confession Romans 10:9-10 5 Love of God Baptism...
AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT WE ALSO REJOICE IN OUR TRIBULATIONS: KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION WORKETH STEDFASTNESS; 'not only so' -'this doesn't mean, of course, that we have only. hope in future joys' (Phi)...
1-5 A blessed change takes place in the sinner's state, when he becomes a true believer, whatever he has been. Being justified by faith he has peace with God. The holy, righteous God, cannot be at pe...
WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO; as old soldiers do in their scars of honour: see GALATIANS 6:17 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9. Believers do not only glory in their future happiness, but in their present suffering...
And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV " Divinely, therefore, Paul writes expressly, "Tribulation worketh, patience, and patience experience, and experience hope; and hope maketh not ashamed."[218] T...
Romans 5:3 And G1161 not G3756 only G3440 but G235 also G2532 glory G2744 (G5736) in G1722 tribulations...
THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF OUR BEING ACCOUNTED AS RIGHTEOUS THROUGH FAITH (5:1-11). Paul now outlines some of the consequences of our being ‘accounted as righteous' through faith. These he represents...
WE ARE ASSURED OF REIGNING IN LIFE AND ENJOYING FUTURE GLORY AND THE BASIS OF THIS IS WHAT CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED FOR US (5:1-21). Having been reckoned as righteous through faith we have peace with G...
Paul now continues to describe the process by which God shapes our lives. For ‘tribulation works steadfastness, and steadfastness brings us to a place of refined purity (approval after testing), and t...
‘And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations,' But what is the road that leads to the glory of God? It is the road of tribulations. It is because of the joy that is set before us that we...
SALVATION TO THE UTTERMOST (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ's activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the...
1. THE BLESSED INWARD CONDITION OF THE JUSTIFIED. Justification has as its proper result peace with God (Romans 5:1), which becomes hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:2), is actually increased by trib...
Romans 5:3. AND NOT ONLY SO; not only let us rejoice (or, do we rejoice) in the hope of glory; but LET US ALSO REJOICE IN OUR TRIBULATIONS. The construction is the same as in Romans 5:2. ‘In' is not t...
3. THE GOSPEL THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION. In this _third division_ of the doctrinal part of the Epistle, the Apostle presents the gospel as ‘the power of God unto salvation,' setting forth how G...
BUT LET US ALSO REJOICE IN OUR TRIBULATIONS (αλλα κα καυχωμεθα εν ταις θλιψεσιν). Present middle subjunctive of same verb as in verse Romans 5:2. Καυχωμα is more than "rejoice," rather "glory," "exu...
Romans 5:1 Immediate Results of Justification. To be acquitted of guilt through the death of Jesus is the most elementary blessing which the gospel brings to our condemned race, shut up in its prison...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore-_ The apostle Paul had the logical faculty largely developed, so his writings are full of «therefores.» And the Christian religion, as a whole, stands logically connected, doct...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ These are matters of fact; not of fanatical delusion, but of logical conclusion, for Paul begin...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ This verse deserves to be printed in letters of gold. If you can truthfully say this, if it is...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ Do not let us simply read these words, but let us each one say in our hearts, «That is true; I...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with, God_ It is a matter of present possession, and present enjoyment. Whatever tribulation there may be in the world, «we have peace w...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith,_ But why «therefore»? Because of the verge preceding it: «Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.» Christ died...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ The gospel is full of «therefores», it is above reason, but it is never against reason; it is t...
Romans 5:1. _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...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ We have it tonight. We enjoy it. We delight in it, «through our Lord Jesus Christ.» Romans 5:2...
CONTENTS: The results of justification. Life and righteousness through Jesus Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Adam, Moses. CONCLUSION: Justification through faith in Jesus Christ takes a...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God._ Faith in the atonement removes the guilt of sin, and makes us heirs of all the promised righteousness of God; the prodigals ar...
AND WE ALSO REJOICE. The Jews boasted about their happiness in the Law. They saw the Christian's _trouble_ as a sign of God's disapproval. Not so, says Paul. TROUBLE produces _endurance, approval, hop...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 5:1 Hope as a Result of Righteousness by Faith. Believers in Christ, who are righteous in God’s sight, have a sure hope of future glory and life eternal....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 5:1.—We have peace, for Christ is our peace. Several manuscripts translate, “Let us have peace,” adopted by the R.V. Justification here spoken of as an act already done—_i.e._...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 5:1 (6) The _results of the revelation of the righteousness of God, as affecting_ (A) the consciousness and hopes of believers; (B) the position of mankind before God. ROMANS 5:...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of Romans. Since chapter 3 Paul has been talking about justification by faith. How that God has declared me innocent because of my faith in Jesus C...
1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 4:16; 1 Peter 4:17; 2 Corinthians 11:23;...
Tribulations. Sharp contrast of glory and tribulation. Tribulations has the article; the tribulations attaching to the condition of believers. Rev., our tribulations. Patience [υ π ο μ ο ν η ν]. See...
MUCH MORE THE GRACE OF GOD Romans 5:1, _Romans 5:15_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us today portions of Romans for our study. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans carries with it one of God's supre...
THE FAR-REACHING RICHES OF GRACE Romans 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Romans leads us into the deepest mysteries of God and of grace. As we begin its study we feel that we are entering into ov...
THE GREAT SALVATION Romans 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's story of sin. The fifth chapter of Romans is God's great climactic of the theme of redemption. Earlier Chapter s of the Book of Romans set...
We glory in tribulations also — Which we are so far from esteeming a mark of God's displeasure, that we receive them as tokens of his fatherly love, whereby we are prepared for a more exalted happines...
Here the apostle mentioneth. fourth benefit flowing from justification by faith; and that is, glorying in their present sufferings. He told us before, that justified persons, being at peace with God,...