Romans 5:2 Cross References - Moffatt

² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

²¹ His master said to him, 'Capital, you excellent and trusty servant! You have been trusty in charge of a small sum: I will put you in charge of a large sum. Come and share your master's feast.'

²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

⁷ so he said to them again, "Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep;

⁹ (I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

²⁷ On their arrival they gathered the church together and reported how God had been with them, what he had done, and how he had opened a door into faith for the Gentiles.

⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

⁵ a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

⁹ Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath. ¹⁰ If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

¹ Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory. ¹⁸ Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

²⁴ We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already?

³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified. ³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides! ³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us! ³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? ³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) ³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, ³⁹ no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

⁴ Who are you to criticize the servant of Another? It is for his Master to say whether he stands or falls; and stand he will, for the Master has power to make him stand.

¹³ May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

¹ Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

¹⁸ But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another — for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

¹⁸ for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit.

¹² through whom, as we have faith in him, we enjoy our confidence of free access.

¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

⁶ Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

¹⁹ Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the fresh, living way which he has inaugurated for us through the veil (that is, through his flesh),

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour. ⁶ You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials; ⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy ⁹ to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls.

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. ² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

²¹ 'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying, "Lo, God's dwelling-place is with men, with men will he dwell; they shall be his people, and God will himself be with them:

¹¹ with the glory of God. The sheen of it resembled some rare jewel like jasper, clear as crystal;

²³ And the City needs no sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God illumines it, and the Lamb lights it up.

⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵ Night there shall be none; they need no lamp or sun to shine upon them, for the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign for ever and ever.