<p>5:1 <i>Being therefore justified by faith</i>- There&rsquo;s a noticeable change of style beginning at Rom. 5:1. Paul starts to talk about &ldquo;we&rdquo;, as if he assumes that he has won the argument in chapters 1-4 and taken his readership with him- they along with him are now, as it were, believers in Christ. Instead of the focus on &ldquo;justification&rdquo; which there is in chapters 1-4, the end result of God&rsquo;s work for us is generally replaced with the word &ldquo;life&rdquo;, i.e. eternal life, occurring 24 times in chapters 5-8. Chapters 5-8 of Romans form a definite section. The words &ldquo;love&rdquo;, &ldquo;justify&rdquo;, &ldquo;glory&rdquo;, &ldquo;peace&rdquo;, &ldquo;hope&rdquo;, &ldquo;tribulation&rdquo;, &ldquo;save&rdquo; and &ldquo;endurance&rdquo; all occur in Rom. 5:1-11 and also several times in Rom. 8:18-39. These passages form bookends an &lsquo;inclusio&rsquo; is the technical term to the material sandwiched between them. Paul is going on from us standing before Divine judgment declared right, justified by our faith in God&rsquo;s promise of grace. That salvation will be and is articulated in terms of life, eternal life, life lived both now and in its fullness after we again stand before the final judgment seat of Christ.</p><p><i>We have peace with God-&nbsp;</i>It's hard to avoid the conclusion that God has written His word in such a way as to leave some things intentionally ambiguous. He could just have given us a set of brief bullet points, written in an unambiguous manner. But instead He gave us the Bible. Given that most of His people over history have been illiterate, they simply couldn't have been able to understand His word in an academic, dissective, analytical sense. Take Rom. 5:1- it could read &quot;Let us have peace&quot; (subjunctive) or &quot;We have peace&quot; (indicative). The difference is merely the length of a vowel, and this would only have been apparent in&nbsp;<i>reading</i>&nbsp;it, as the difference wouldn't have been aurally discernible when the letter was publicly read.</p><p><i>Peace</i>&nbsp;here refers to our being right with God, rather than a calmness in life generally. Such a thing isn&rsquo;t promised to Christians but rather the very opposite. &ldquo;Peace with God&rdquo; cannot be experienced if we are continually doubting whether or not we shall ultimately be saved. We should be able to say that if the Lord were to return right now, by grace, we believe that we shall surely be saved; for we are right here and now justified before God&rsquo;s judgment seat. Therefore we experience right now &ldquo;peace with God&rdquo;.</p><p><i>Through our Lord Jesus Christ</i>- previously Paul has pointed out that God has set us right with Him simply if we can believe that He would do this. But increasingly, Paul points out that&nbsp;<i>how and why&nbsp;</i>this is- He does this on account of the work of the Lord Jesus.&nbsp;</p>