Romans 5 Bible study: While we were yet sinners

The chapter opens with therefore: "Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (5:1-2) (tap justified, access and rejoice). The verses just before it say that what was written of Abraham was written "for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification" (4:24-25). Here is what almost everyone misses: the chapter doesn't stop at rejoicing in hope. "Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (5:3-5) (tap suffering, perseverance, proven character and love). The chain that begins with suffering ends with hope, the word of 5:2's "We rejoice in hope".

Genesis 3:6→leads toRomans 5:19

Paul sets Adam and Jesus side by side: "as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous." "As in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive."

καταλλάσσωkatallassosay kat-al-LAS-so

Strong's: "to change mutually, i.e. (figuratively) to compound a difference". "For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life." (5:10): the verb twice in one verse. The New Testament has it six times (counted in RP2018): twice here, once in 1 Corinthians, and three times in 2 Corinthians, which says, "But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:18). The noun Strong's gives as formed from it is in the next verse (tap reconciliation).