What does Romans 5:1 mean?

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:1, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

Romans 5:1-3

  1. 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
  2. 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  3. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Study note

Tyndale Open Study Notes (CC BY-SA 4.0).

5:1–8:39 Paul now turns from the Good News about how people enter a relationship with God to the security of that relationship. Christians have a strong and unassailable promise because of God’s work in Christ, God’s love for them, and the power of the Holy Spirit. This theme frames the teaching of these chapters (5:1-11; 8:18-39) as Paul grounds that promise in the transfer of believers from the realm of Adam to the realm of Christ (5:12-21). No power—whether sin (ch 6), the law (ch 7), or death (8:1-13)—“will ever be able to separate us from the love of God” (8:39).

5:1 we have peace: In many manuscripts, the underlying Greek verb is indicative, as translated here.

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About the book of Romans

Author
Paul (Romans 1:1)
When
c. AD 57, from Corinth
Period
Igreja primitiva, c. 30 a 70 d.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

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