1:
Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ 2: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God 3: And not only
so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulations work patience 4:
And patience experience and experience hope 5: And hope makes not
ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given to us 6: For when we were yet without strength in due
time Christ died for the ungodly 7: For scarcely for a righteous man
will one die yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die 8:
But God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for us 9: Much more then being
now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him 1 Thessalonians 5:1-9 10:
For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son
much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life 11: And not
only so but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have
now received the atonement 1 John 5:11-15 12: Wherefore as by
one man sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon
all people for that all have sinned 13: For until the law sin was in the
world but sin is not imputed when there is no law 14: Nevertheless death
reigned from 'âdâm (pronounced audawm) to Moses even over them that had
not sinned after the similitude of 'âdâm’s
transgression who is a type of him that was to come [only in reverse vs
15-17] 15: But not as the offence so also is the free gift For if
through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of God and the gift
by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ has abounded to many 16: And
not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift for the judgment was by one to
condemnation but the free gift is of many offences to justification 17:
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one
Jesus Christ 18: Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon every
one to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon
every one to justification of life 19: For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous[1] 20:
Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound But where sin abounded
grace did much more abound 21: That as sin has reigned unto death even so
might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our
Lord
[1] It is egotism run wild and a
theological travesty that complementarians (male headship Christians) actually glorify
the sin of 'Iysh—the man—by teaching
that the sin of the woman, 'Ishshah, carried less
import because of her sex. The attribution of head-sinner, bestowed
on 'Iysh,
is rightly bestowed—but complementarians apply it for the wrong reason. Sin tainted
the entire world through the sin of the first man, 'âdâm, for no other reason than the fact that there were no sinless humans left on the planet. If
'Iysh had sinned first and 'Ishshah had followed
suit (rather than the other way around), then sin would have entered the world
through a woman. There was nothing suggestive of headship in 'âdâm’s sin, and the complementarian argument
of that the sin of a male is carries more import than the sin of a female, has
no theological merit. It is nothing less than childish. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul
addressed numerous sins that immature Christians commit when he wrote, “When I
was a child I spoke as a child… but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.”
Additional commentary pending for this
chapter. Questions and comments are welcome.
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