Romans 5

The effects of justification by faith, peace with God, Romans 5:1 . The joyous hope of eternal glory, Romans 5:2 . Glorying in tribulations, Romans 5:3 . And gaining thereby patience, experience, and hope, Romans 5:4 . And having the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit, Romans 5:5 . The state of the world when Christ died for it, Romans 5:6-10 . Jesus Christ is an atonement, Romans 5:11 . Sin and death entered into the world by Adam's transgression, and all became guilty before God, Romans 5:12-14 . God's grace in sending Christ into the world to save fallen man, Romans 5:15-19 . The law is brought in to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin, Romans 5:20 . The grace of Christ is to be as extensive in its influences and reign, as sin has been in its enslaving and destructive nature, Romans 5:21 .

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 .

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.

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 honor and benefit.