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Salvation / Answer across Scripture
Romans 5 says believers have peace with God through Jesus Christ because they have been justified by faith.
Study theme
Salvation
Believers have peace with God through Jesus Christ because God has justified them by faith. Romans 5:1-2 connects peace with God, access into grace, and hope. The peace in view is not merely a calm feeling; it is the changed relationship God gives through Christ after the problem of sin and judgment has been addressed.
Romans 5 follows Paul's argument for justification by faith and begins to describe its results: peace, grace, hope, endurance, and God's love.
Romans 5:1-2 is the central passage for this answer. The passage links peace with God to justification by faith, access into grace, and hope in God's glory.
Key passages
1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
A common misunderstanding is to define peace with God only as inner tranquility. Romans speaks of a reconciled standing before God through Christ.