^5:6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ^5:7(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)⁷^5:8But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ^5:9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous⁸ by his blood,⁹ we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.¹⁰^5:10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life? ^5:11Not¹¹ only this, but we also rejoice¹² in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

The Amplification of Justification

^5:12So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people¹³ because¹⁴ all sinned—^5:13for before the law was given,¹⁵ sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin¹⁶ when there is no law. ^5:14Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type¹⁷ of the coming one) transgressed.¹⁸^5:15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression.¹⁹ For if the many died through the transgression of the one man,²⁰ how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

Read in Logos

Romans 5:10: For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Footnotes

7 Verse 7 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.
8 Grk “having now been declared righteous.” The participle δικαιωθέντες (dikaiōthentes) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.
9 Or, according to §219.3, “at the price of his blood.”
10 Grk “the wrath,” referring to God’s wrath as v. 10 shows.
11 Here δέ (de) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
12 Or “exult, boast.”
13 Here ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous) has been translated as a generic (“people”) since both men and women are clearly intended in this context.
14 The translation of the phrase ἐφʼ ᾧ (eph hō) has been heavily debated. For a discussion of all the possibilities, see C. E. B. Cranfield, “On Some of the Problems in the Interpretation of Romans 5.12,” 22 (1969): 324–41. Only a few of the major options can be mentioned here: (1) the phrase can be taken as a relative clause in which the pronoun refers to Adam, “death spread to all people in whom [Adam] all sinned.” (2) The phrase can be taken with consecutive (resultative) force, meaning “death spread to all people with the result that all sinned.” (3) Others take the phrase as causal in force: “death spread to all people because all sinned.”
15 Grk “for before the law.”
16 Or “sin is not reckoned.”
17 Or “pattern.”
18 Or “disobeyed”; Grk “in the likeness of Adam’s transgression.”
19 Grk “but not as the transgression, so also [is] the gracious gift.”
20 Here the one man refers to Adam (cf. 5:14).