Romans 5 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2 per quem et habemus accessum per fidem in gratiam istam, in qua stamus, et gloriamur in spe gloriæ filiorum Dei.
2 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.
3 Non solum autem, sed et gloriamur in tribulationibus: scientes quod tribulatio patientiam operatur:
3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
4 patientia autem probationem, probatio vero spem,
4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
5 spes autem non confundit: quia caritas Dei diffusa est in cordibus nostris per Spiritum Sanctum, qui datus est nobis.
5 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.
6 Ut quid enim Christus, cum adhuc infirmi essemus, secundum tempus, pro impiis mortuus est?
6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 vix enim pro justo quis moritur: nam pro bono forsitan quis audeat mori.
7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.
8 Commendat autem caritatem suam Deus in nobis: quoniam cum adhuc peccatores essemus, secundum tempus,
8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Christus pro nobis mortuus est: multo igitur magis nunc justificati in sanguine ipsius, salvi erimus ab ira per ipsum.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
10 Si enim cum inimici essemus, reconciliati sumus Deo per mortem filii ejus: multo magis reconciliati, salvi erimus in vita ipsius.
10 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.
11 Non solum autem: sed et gloriamur in Deo per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, per quem nunc reconciliationem accepimus.
11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Propterea sicut per unum hominem peccatum in hunc mundum intravit, et per peccatum mors, et ita in omnes homines mors pertransiit, in quo omnes peccaverunt.
12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
13 Usque ad legem enim peccatum erat in mundo: peccatum autem non imputabatur, cum lex non esset.
13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14 Sed regnavit mors ab Adam usque ad Moysen etiam in eos qui non peccaverunt in similitudinem prævaricationis Adæ, qui est forma futuri.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15 Sed non sicut delictum, ita et donum: si enim unius delicto multi mortui sunt: multo magis gratia Dei et donum in gratia unius hominis Jesu Christi in plures abundavit.
15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 Et non sicut per unum peccatum, ita et donum. Nam judicium quidem ex uno in condemnationem: gratia autem ex multis delictis in justificationem.
16 The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.
17 Si enim unius delicto mors regnavit per unum: multo magis abundantiam gratiæ, et donationis, et justitiæ accipientes, in vita regnabunt per unum Jesum Christum.
17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
18 Igitur sicut per unius delictum in omnes homines in condemnationem: sic et per unius justitiam in omnes homines in justificationem vitæ.
18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19 Sicut enim per inobedientiam unius hominis, peccatores constituti sunt multi: ita et per unius obeditionem, justi constituentur multi.
19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
20 Lex autem subintravit ut abundaret delictum. Ubi autem abundavit delictum, superabundavit gratia:
20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
21 ut sicut regnavit peccatum in mortem: ita et gratia regnet per justitiam in vitam æternam, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 32:17; John 16:33; Romans 15:13; Colossians 1:20; Acts 13:38–39
- 2 Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Romans 12:12; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 1 Peter 3:18
- 3 James 1:2–3; James 1:12; 1 Peter 3:14; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; 2 Corinthians 4:17
- 4 1 Peter 5:10; James 1:12; 2 Corinthians 4:8–12; 2 Timothy 4:16–18; 1 Peter 1:6–7
- 5 Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 3:16–19; Philippians 1:20; 2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Corinthians 1:22
- 6 Ephesians 2:1–5; Romans 5:8; Colossians 2:13; Titus 3:3–5; Romans 5:10
- 7 John 15:13; 1 John 3:16; Romans 16:4; Acts 11:24; Psalm 112:5
- 8 John 15:13; John 3:16; Romans 5:6; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 John 4:9–10
- 9 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Romans 8:1; Ephesians 2:13; Romans 3:24–26; John 5:24
- 10 2 Corinthians 5:18–19; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11; Romans 8:32; Colossians 1:20–21; Hebrews 7:25
- 11 2 Corinthians 5:18–19; Romans 5:10; Isaiah 61:10; Habakkuk 3:17–18; Philippians 4:4
- 12 1 Corinthians 15:21–22; Romans 5:19; Romans 6:23; Romans 3:23; James 1:15
- 13 Romans 4:15; 1 Corinthians 15:56; 1 John 3:4; Genesis 4:7–11; Genesis 38:10
- 14 1 Corinthians 15:45; Hebrews 9:27; Romans 5:17; Genesis 7:22; Romans 8:22
- 15 Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 6:23; 1 John 5:11; 2 Corinthians 9:15
- 16 Acts 13:38–39; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 43:25; 1 Corinthians 11:32
- 17 1 Corinthians 15:21–22; 1 Corinthians 15:49; Romans 5:12; John 10:10; 2 Timothy 2:12
- 18 1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12; Romans 5:15; Acts 13:39; Romans 5:19
- 19 Romans 5:18; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:8; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 1:6
- 20 Romans 6:1; Titus 3:3–7; Psalm 25:11; Romans 6:14; Galatians 3:19–25
- 21 Titus 2:11; Romans 6:14; Romans 5:14; John 1:16–17; Romans 8:10
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Romans 5:1: “we have peace” or “let us have peace”?
Most English Bibles read “being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” The Douay-Rheims reads “let us have peace.” The difference in Greek is a single vowel, echomen or echōmen, which sounded alike when read aloud. The oldest manuscripts mostly favour “let us have,” but most scholars and the Patriarchal Text read “we have.” The teaching of the passage is the same either way.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
As the best physicians always take great pains to discover the source of diseases, and go to the very fountain of the mischief, so doth the blessed Paul also.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
Concurring with these statements, Paul, speaking to the Romans, declares: "Much more they who receive abundance of grace and righteousness for [eternal] life, shall reign by one, Christ Jesus." It follows from this, that he knew nothing of that Christ who flew away from Jesus; nor did he of the Saviour above, whom they hold to be impassible.
… not then my friend, nor, indeed, afterwards, as true friendship is; for true it is not but in such as Thou bindest together, cleaving unto Thee by that love which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. But yet it was too sweet, being ripened by the fervour of similar studies.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
"For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved." "But this way," it will be said, "is strait and narrow." Well, but the former, through which thou hast come, is not strait and narrow only, but even impassable, and full of savage wild beasts.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Moreover one man's sin, even Adam's, had power to bring death to the world; but if by the trespass of the one death reigned over the world, how shall not life much rather reign by the righteousness of the One?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)