Therefore being (1) justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (1) Another argument taken from the effects: we are justified with that which truly appeases our conscience before God: and faith in Christ does appease our conscience and not the law, as it was said befor... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) By whom also we (a) have access by faith into this grace (b) wherein we (c) stand, (3) and (d) rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (2) Whereas quietness of conscience is attributed to faith, it is to be referred to Christ, who is the giver of faith itself, and in whom faith itself is effectual... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 it does not make us miserable. (5) Afflictions make us use to being patient, and patience assures u... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the (e) love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (6) The foundation of hope is an assured testimony of the conscience, by the gift of the Holy Spirit, that we are loved by God, and this is nothing else but that which... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) For when we were yet without strength, in due (f) time Christ died for the ungodly. (7) A sure comfort in adversity, so that our peace and quietness of conscience are not troubled: for he that so loved them that were of no strength and while they were yet sinners, that he died for them, how can... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) For scarcely (g) for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. (8) An amplifying of the love of God towards us, so that we cannot doubt it, who delivered Christ to death for the unjust and for them from whom he could receive no useful thing, and,... [ Continue Reading ]
But God (h) commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet (i) sinners, Christ died for us. (h) He commends his love toward us, so that in the midst of our afflictions we may know assuredly that he will be present with us. (i) While sin reigned in us.... [ Continue Reading ]
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from (k) wrath through him. (k) From affliction and destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) And not only [so], but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (9) He now passes over to the other part of justification, which consists in the free imputation of the obedience of Christ: so that to the remission of sins, there is added more... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) Wherefore, as by (l) one man (m) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, (n) for that all have sinned: (10) From Adam, in whom all have sinned, both guiltiness and death (which is the punishment of the guiltiness) came upon all. (l) By Adam, who is comp... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) (For until (o) the law sin was in the world: but sin is not (p) imputed when there is no law. (11) That this is so, that both guiltiness and death began not after the giving and transgressing of law of Moses, is evident in that men died before that law was given: for in that they died, sin, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over (q) them that had not sinned after the (r) similitude of Adam's transgression, (13) who is the figure of him that was to come. (12) But that this law was not the universal law, and that death did not proceed from any actual sin of everyo... [ Continue Reading ]
(14) But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of (s) 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. (14) Adam and Christ are compared together in this respect, that both of them... [ Continue Reading ]
(15) 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 (t) justification. (15) Another inequality consists in this, that by Adam's one offence men are made guilty, but the righteousness of Christ imp... [ Continue Reading ]
(16) 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 (u) reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) (16) The third difference is that the righteousness of Christ, being imputed to us by grace, is of greater power to... [ Continue Reading ]
(17) 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 (x) justification of life. (17) Therefore, to be short, as by one man's offence the guiltiness came on all men to make them subject to dea... [ Continue Reading ]
(18) For as by one man's (y) disobedience (z) many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. (18) The foundation of this whole comparison is this, that these two men are set as two heads or roots, so that out of the one comes sin by nature, and from the other right... [ Continue Reading ]
(19) Moreover the law (a) entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more (b) abound: (19) A preventing of an objection: why then did the law of Moses then enter? So that men might be so much more the guilty, and the benefit of God in Christ Jesus be all the more... [ Continue Reading ]