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Romans 5 — Sermon Preparation
Justification brings peace with God, and Paul contrasts the condemnation that came through Adam with the grace and life that came through Christ. Below is a research summary for Romans 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Romans 5 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| εἷς | heîs | G1520 | 12 | a, abundantly, man, one |
| παράπτωμα | paráptōma | G3900 | 6 | fall, fault, offence, sin |
| πολύς | polýs | G4183 | 9 | abundant, altogether, common, far |
| βασιλεύω | basileúō | G936 | 5 | king, reign |
| θάνατος | thánatos | G2288 | 6 | deadly, death |
| χάρις | cháris | G5485 | 6 | acceptable, benefit, favour, gift |
| ἁμαρτία | hamartía | G266 | 6 | offence, sin |
How preachers through history handled this text
54 public-domain excerpts on Romans 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“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. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Romans 5:20–30 (Public Domain)
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