From the New Greek/English Interlinear NT; UBS 5th Edition/Nestle-Aland 28th Edition - NRSV
By Tyndale House Publishers c2020
Rm 4:25-5:1 ...WHO WAS HANDED OVER BECAUSE OF THE TRESPASSES OF US AND WAS RAISED BECAUSE OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF US. HAVING BEEN JUSTIFIED THEREFORE BY FAITH PEACE WE HAVE TOWARD GOD THROUGH THE LORD OF US JESUS CHRIST...
Rm 4:25-5:1 from the Common English Bible
He was handed over because of our mistakes, and he was raised to meet the requirements of righteousness for us. Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Cambridge Bible Rom 4:25
Lit. because of our Justification. The construction is identical. This, and the balance of the clauses, seem to demand the exposition: “He was raised, because our justification was effected;” not, “in order to give us justification,” as many interpret it. The parallel is complete: “We sinned, therefore He suffered: we were justified, therefore He rose.”
"God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us; much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath" (Rom 5:8-9 YLT)
"Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God; who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel," (2Tim 1:8-10 ASV)
From the 1644 First London Confession of Faith, Baptist
"XXVIII. That those which have union with Christ, are justified from all their sins, past
(John 1:7; Heb 10:14; 9:26; 2 Cor. 5:19; Rom. 3:23), present, and to come, by the blood
of Christ; which justification we conceive to be a gracious and free (Acts 13:38, 39; Rom.
5:1; 3:25, 30) acquittance of a guilty, sinful creature, from all sin by God, through the
satisfaction that Christ has made by His death; and this applied in the manifestation of it
through faith.
If exercising one's faith is what brings or produces justification, and if Christ died for everyone, one's faith is what made the difference between the saved and the lost. That means his salvation then, was because of himself, not solely by Jesus Christ, that is if Christ died for everyone.
From Paul Kretzmann (a Lutheran) Commentary on Rm 4:25 -
"On account of our offenses, our sins and transgressions, God raised Christ from the dead, because His object was to justify us, and this object was attained in the resurrection. Thus the resurrection of Christ effected our justification. The expiation through Christ's sufferings on the cross, the atonement of death, have been sealed by the resurrection of Christ; for it is a declaration before all the world that the object of Christ's death has been gained, that God has accepted the reconciliation, that the victory of Jesus is a formal and solemn absolution which God has pronounced upon sinful mankind. And so He is our Lord, and we have become His own. By the faith which God wrought in our hearts, we have accepted His atonement and are declared to be righteous in the sight of God."
John Gill(Baptist) Commentary on Rm 5:1 -
Not that faith is at the first of our justification; for that is a sentence which passed in the mind of God from all eternity, and which passed on Christ, and on all the elect considered in him, when he rose from the dead; see Ro 4:25; nor is it the chief, or has it the chief place in justification; it is not the efficient cause of it, it is God that justifies, and not faith; it is not the moving cause of it, that is the free grace of God; it is not the matter of it, that is the righteousness of Christ: we are not justified by faith, either as God's work in us, for, as such, it is a part of sanctification; nor as our work or act, as exercised by us, for then we should be justified by works, by something of our own, and have whereof to glory; but we are justified by faith objectively and relatively, as that relates to the object Christ, and his righteousness; or as it is a means of our knowledge, and perception of our justification by Christ's righteousness, and of our enjoying the comfort of it..."
By Tyndale House Publishers c2020
Rm 4:25-5:1 ...WHO WAS HANDED OVER BECAUSE OF THE TRESPASSES OF US AND WAS RAISED BECAUSE OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF US. HAVING BEEN JUSTIFIED THEREFORE BY FAITH PEACE WE HAVE TOWARD GOD THROUGH THE LORD OF US JESUS CHRIST...
Rm 4:25-5:1 from the Common English Bible
He was handed over because of our mistakes, and he was raised to meet the requirements of righteousness for us. Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Cambridge Bible Rom 4:25
Lit. because of our Justification. The construction is identical. This, and the balance of the clauses, seem to demand the exposition: “He was raised, because our justification was effected;” not, “in order to give us justification,” as many interpret it. The parallel is complete: “We sinned, therefore He suffered: we were justified, therefore He rose.”
"God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us; much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath" (Rom 5:8-9 YLT)
"Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God; who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel," (2Tim 1:8-10 ASV)
From the 1644 First London Confession of Faith, Baptist
"XXVIII. That those which have union with Christ, are justified from all their sins, past
(John 1:7; Heb 10:14; 9:26; 2 Cor. 5:19; Rom. 3:23), present, and to come, by the blood
of Christ; which justification we conceive to be a gracious and free (Acts 13:38, 39; Rom.
5:1; 3:25, 30) acquittance of a guilty, sinful creature, from all sin by God, through the
satisfaction that Christ has made by His death; and this applied in the manifestation of it
through faith.
If exercising one's faith is what brings or produces justification, and if Christ died for everyone, one's faith is what made the difference between the saved and the lost. That means his salvation then, was because of himself, not solely by Jesus Christ, that is if Christ died for everyone.
From Paul Kretzmann (a Lutheran) Commentary on Rm 4:25 -
"On account of our offenses, our sins and transgressions, God raised Christ from the dead, because His object was to justify us, and this object was attained in the resurrection. Thus the resurrection of Christ effected our justification. The expiation through Christ's sufferings on the cross, the atonement of death, have been sealed by the resurrection of Christ; for it is a declaration before all the world that the object of Christ's death has been gained, that God has accepted the reconciliation, that the victory of Jesus is a formal and solemn absolution which God has pronounced upon sinful mankind. And so He is our Lord, and we have become His own. By the faith which God wrought in our hearts, we have accepted His atonement and are declared to be righteous in the sight of God."
John Gill(Baptist) Commentary on Rm 5:1 -
Not that faith is at the first of our justification; for that is a sentence which passed in the mind of God from all eternity, and which passed on Christ, and on all the elect considered in him, when he rose from the dead; see Ro 4:25; nor is it the chief, or has it the chief place in justification; it is not the efficient cause of it, it is God that justifies, and not faith; it is not the moving cause of it, that is the free grace of God; it is not the matter of it, that is the righteousness of Christ: we are not justified by faith, either as God's work in us, for, as such, it is a part of sanctification; nor as our work or act, as exercised by us, for then we should be justified by works, by something of our own, and have whereof to glory; but we are justified by faith objectively and relatively, as that relates to the object Christ, and his righteousness; or as it is a means of our knowledge, and perception of our justification by Christ's righteousness, and of our enjoying the comfort of it..."
