Romans 5 What can we know as believers?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the book of Romans in the Bible teaches. This message covers Romans 5, what believers can know.

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Romans 5:1-21 ( KJV ) ¹Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:  ²By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  ³And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;  ⁴And patience, experience; and experience, hope:  ⁵And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ⁶For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  ⁷For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.  ⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  ⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  ¹⁰For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.  ¹¹And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.  ¹²Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:  ¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  ¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.  ¹⁵But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of 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.  ¹⁶And 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 justification.  ¹⁷For 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 reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)  ¹⁸Therefore 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 justification of life.  ¹⁹For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.  ²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:  ²¹That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ( KJV ) ¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Ephesians 1:9-14 ( KJV ) ⁹Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:  ¹⁰That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:  ¹¹In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:  ¹²That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.  ¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,  ¹⁴Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Romans 3:10 ( KJV ) ¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 ( KJV ) ⁹For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;  ¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Matthew 24:3-42 ( KJV ) ³And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? ⁴And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.  ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.  ⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.  ⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows.  ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.  ¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.  ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.  ¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  ¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.  ¹⁵When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)  ¹⁶Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:  ¹⁷Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:  ¹⁸Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.  ¹⁹And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!  ²⁰But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:  ²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.  ²³Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.  ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.  ²⁵Behold, I have told you before.  ²⁶Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.  ²⁷For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ²⁸For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.  ²⁹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:  ³⁰And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  ³¹And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ³²Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:  ³³So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.  ³⁴Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.  ³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.  ³⁶But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.  ³⁷But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ³⁸For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,  ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ⁴⁰Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  ⁴¹Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  ⁴²Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

1 John 2:15-16 ( KJV ) ¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  ¹⁶For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.