<p>4:25&nbsp;<i>Who was delivered up for our trespasses</i><i>- </i>An allusion to the LXX of Is. 53:12: &ldquo;He was handed over because of their sins&rdquo;. The Gospel accounts of the crucifixion give special emphasis to the moment of the Lord being handed over to those who would crucify Him. Paul is going on to show the mechanics, as it were, of how God has chosen to operate. His scheme of justifying us isn&rsquo;t merely a case of Him saying &lsquo;So you are declared right by Me&rsquo;. He can do as He wishes, but He prefers to work through some kind of mechanism. We are declared right by God although we are sinners; which raises the obvious question: So what becomes of our sins? And so Paul explains that by talking about the crucial role of the death of Christ. Because He was of our nature, He is our representative. Although He never sinned, He died, yet He rose again to eternal life. Through connection with Him, we therefore can be counted as in Him, and thereby be given that eternal life through resurrection, regardless of our sins. In this sense, Jesus had to die and resurrect because of our sins.&nbsp;</p><p><i>And was raised for our justification- </i>This also is an allusion to the LXX of Isaiah 53, this time to Is. 53:11, which speaks of &ldquo;the righteous servant&rdquo; (Jesus) &ldquo;justifying the righteous&rdquo;. The repetition of the word &ldquo;righteous&rdquo; suggests that on account of the Lord&rsquo;s death, and resurrection, His righteousness becomes ours, through this process of justification. But how and why, exactly, does Christ&rsquo;s death and resurrection enable our justification? Paul has explained that faith in God brings justification before Him. Now Paul is explaining how and why this process operates. Jesus died and rose again to eternal life as our representative. If we believe into Him (which chapter 6 will define as involving our identification with His death and resurrection by baptism), then we too will live for ever as He does, as we will participate in His resurrection to eternal life. Our final justification, being declared in the right, will be at the day of judgment. We will be resurrected, judged, and declared righteous- and given eternal life, never again to sin and die. This is the end result of the status of &lsquo;justified&rsquo; which we have now, as we stand in the dock facing God&rsquo;s judgment.&nbsp;</p>