Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
THE BLESSED EFFECTS OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. (Romans 5:1-11)
Therefore being--"having been."
justified by faith, we have peace with God, etc.--If we are to be guided by manuscript authority, the true reading here, beyond doubt, is, "Let us have peace"; a reading, however, which most reject, because they think it unnatural to exhort men to have what it belongs to God to give, because the apostle is not here giving exhortations, but stating matters of fact. But as it seems hazardous to set aside the decisive testimony of manuscripts, as to what the apostle did write, in favor of what we merely think he ought to have written, let us pause and ask--If it be the privilege of the justified to "have peace with God," why might not the apostle begin his enumeration of the fruits of justification by calling on believers to "realize" this peace as belonged to them, or cherish the joyful consciousness of it as their own? And if this is what he has done, it would not be necessary to continue in the same style, and the other fruits of justification might be set down, simply as matters of fact. This "peace" is first a change in God's relation to us; and next, as the consequence of this, a change on our part towards Him. God, on the one hand, has "reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:18); and we, on the other hand, setting our seal to this, "are reconciled to God" (2 Corinthians 5:20). The "propitiation" is the meeting-place; there the controversy on both sides terminates in an honorable and eternal "peace."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 22:21
Song of Solomon 6:13
Song of Solomon 8:10
Isaiah 27:5
Isaiah 53:5
Haggai 2:9
Zechariah 3:10
Romans 5:1
Romans 5:4
Romans 15:13
Galatians 5:5
Ephesians 6:17
James 2:18
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