1 Ospravedlněni tedy jsouce z víry, pokoj máme s Bohem skrze Pána našeho Jezukrista,
2 Skrze něhož i přístup měli jsme věrou k milosti této, kterouž stojíme. A chlubíme se nadějí slávy Boží.
3 A ne jen nadějí, ale také chlubíme se ssouženími, vědouce, že ssoužení trpělivost působí,
4 A trpělivost zkušení, zkušení pak naději.
5 A nadějeť nezahanbuje; nebo láska Boží rozlita jest v srdcích našich skrze Ducha svatého, kterýž dán jest nám.
6 Kristus zajisté, když jsme my ještě mdlí byli, v čas příhodný za bezbožné umřel,
7 Ješto sotva kdo za spravedlivého umře, ač za dobréhoť by někdo snad i umříti směl.
8 Dokazujeť pak Bůh lásky své k nám; nebo když jsme ještě hříšníci byli, Kristus umřel za nás.
9 Čím tedy více nyní ospravedlněni jsouce krví jeho, spaseni budeme skrze něho od hněvu.
10 Poněvadž byvše nepřátelé, smířeni jsme s Bohem skrze smrt Syna jeho, nadtoť smířeni jsouce, spaseni budeme skrze život jeho.
11 A ne jen to, ale chlubíme se i Bohem, skrze Pána našeho Jezukrista, skrze něhož nyní smíření jsme došli.
12 A protož jakož skrze jednoho člověka hřích na svět všel a skrze hřích smrt, a tak na všecky lidi smrt přišla, v němž všickni zhřešili.
13 Nebo až do zákona hřích byl na světě, ale hřích se nepočítá, když zákona není.
14 Kralovala pak smrt od Adama až do Mojžíše také i nad těmi, kteříž nehřešili ku podobenství přestoupení Adamova, kterýž jest figůra toho budoucího.
15 Ale ne jako hřích, tak i milost. Nebo poněvadž onoho jednoho pádem mnoho jich zemřelo, mnohemť více milost Boží a dar z milosti toho jednoho člověka Jezukrista na mnohé rozlit jest.
16 Aniž jako skrze jednoho, kterýž zhřešil, tak milost. Nebo vina z jednoho pádu ku potupení, ale milost z mnohých hříchů k ospravedlnění.
17 Nebo poněvadž pro ten pád jeden smrt kralovala pro toho jednoho, mnohemť více, kteříž rozhojněnou milost a dar spravedlnosti přijímají, v životě kralovati budou skrze toho jediného Jezukrista.
18 A tak tedy, jakž skrze pád jeden na všecky lidi přišla vina ku potupení, tak i skrze jediné ospravedlnění na všecky lidi přišla milost k ospravedlnění života.
19 Nebo jakož skrze neposlušenství jednoho člověka učiněno jest mnoho hříšných, tak i skrze poslušenství jednoho spravedlivi učiněni budou mnozí.
20 Zákon pak k tomu přistoupil, aby se rozhojnil hřích, a kdež se rozhojnil hřích, tu ještě více rozhojnila se milost,
21 Aby jakož kraloval hřích k smrti, tak aby i milost kralovala skrze spravedlnost k životu věčnému, skrze Jezukrista Pána našeho.
Matthew Henry - Concise Commentary 1 A blessed change takes place in the sinner's state, when he becomes a true believer, whatever he has been. Being justified by faith he has peace with God. The holy, righteous God, cannot be at peace with a sinner, while under the guilt of sin. Justification takes away the guilt, and so makes way for peace. This is through our Lord Jesus Christ; through him as the great Peace-maker, the Mediator between God and man. The saints' happy state is a state of grace. Into this grace we are brought, which teaches that we were not born in this state. We could not have got into it of ourselves, but we are led into it, as pardoned offenders. Therein we stand, a posture that denotes perseverance; we stand firm and safe, upheld by the power of God. And those who have hope for the glory of God hereafter, have enough to rejoice in now. Tribulation worketh patience, not in and of itself, but the powerful grace of God working in and with the tribulation. Patient sufferers have most of the Divine consolations, which abound as afflictions abound. It works needful experience of ourselves. This hope will not disappoint, because it is sealed with the Holy Spirit as a Spirit of love. It is the gracious work of the blessed Spirit to shed abroad the love of God in the hearts of all the saints. A right sense of God's love to us, will make us not ashamed, either of our hope, or of our sufferings for him.
6 Christ died for sinners; not only such as were useless, but such as were guilty and hateful; such that their everlasting destruction would be to the glory of God's justice. Christ died to save us, not in our sins, but from our sins; and we were yet sinners when he died for us. Nay, the carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself,
Roma 8:7;
Colos 1:21. But God designed to deliver from sin, and to work a great change. While the sinful state continues, God loathes the sinner, and the sinner loathes God,
Zech 11:8. And that for such as these Christ should die, is a mystery; no other such an instance of love is known, so that it may well be the employment of eternity to adore and wonder at it. Again; what idea had the apostle when he supposed the case of some one dying for a righteous man? And yet he only put it as a thing that might be. Was it not the undergoing this suffering, that the person intended to be benefitted might be released therefrom? But from what are believers in Christ released by his death? Not from bodily death; for that they all do and must endure. The evil, from which the deliverance could be effected only in this astonishing manner, must be more dreadful than natural death. There is no evil, to which the argument can be applied, except that which the apostle actually affirms, sin, and wrath, the punishment of sin, determined by the unerring justice of God. And if, by Divine grace, they were thus brought to repent, and to believe in Christ, and thus were justified by the price of his bloodshedding, and by faith in that atonement, much more through Him who died for them and rose again, would they be kept from falling under the power of sin and Satan, or departing finally from him. The living Lord of all, will complete the purpose of his dying love, by saving all true believers to the uttermost. Having such a pledge of salvation in the love of God through Christ, the apostle declared that believers not only rejoiced in the hope of heaven, and even in their tribulations for Christ's sake, but they gloried in God also, as their unchangeable Friend and all-sufficient Portion, through Christ only.
12 The design of what follows is plain. It is to exalt our views respecting the blessings Christ has procured for us, by comparing them with the evil which followed upon the fall of our first father; and by showing that these blessings not only extend to the removal of these evils, but far beyond. Adam sinning, his nature became guilty and corrupted, and so came to his children. Thus in him all have sinned. And death is by sin; for death is the wages of sin. Then entered all that misery which is the due desert of sin; temporal, spiritual, eternal death. If Adam had not sinned, he had not died; but a sentence of death was passed, as upon a criminal; it passed through all men, as an infectious disease that none escape. In proof of our union with Adam, and our part in his first transgression, observe, that sin prevailed in the world, for many ages before the giving of the law by Moses. And death reigned in that long time, not only over adults who wilfully sinned, but also over multitudes of infants, which shows that they had fallen in Adam under condemnation, and that the sin of Adam extended to all his posterity. He was a figure or type of Him that was to come as Surety of a new covenant, for all who are related to Him.
15 Through one man's offence, all mankind are exposed to eternal condemnation. But the grace and mercy of God, and the free gift of righteousness and salvation, are through Jesus Christ, as man: yet the Lord from heaven has brought the multitude of believers into a more safe and exalted state than that from which they fell in Adam. This free gift did not place them anew in a state of trial, but fixed them in a state of justification, as Adam would have been placed, had he stood. Notwithstanding the differences, there is a striking similarity. As by the offence of one, sin and death prevailed to the condemnation of all men, so by the righteousness of one, grace prevailed to the justification of all related to Christ by faith. Through the grace of God, the gift by grace has abounded to many through Christ; yet multitudes choose to remain under the dominion of sin and death, rather than to apply for the blessings of the reign of grace. But Christ will in nowise cast out any who are willing to come to him.
20 By Christ and his righteousness, we have more and greater privileges than we lost by the offence of Adam. The moral law showed that many thoughts, tempers, words, and actions, were sinful, thus transgressions were multiplied. Not making sin to abound the more, but discovering the sinfulness of it, even as the letting in a clearer light into a room, discovers the dust and filth which were there before, but were not seen. The sin of Adam, and the effect of corruption in us, are the abounding of that offence which appeared on the entrance of the law. And the terrors of the law make gospel comforts the more sweet. Thus God the Holy Spirit has, by the blessed apostle, delivered to us a most important truth, full of consolation, suited to our need as sinners. Whatever one may have above another, every man is a sinner against God, stands condemned by the law, and needs pardon. A righteousness that is to justify cannot be made up of a mixture of sin and holiness. There can be no title to an eternal reward without a pure and spotless righteousness: let us look for it, even to the righteousness of Christ.
