描繪過人類悲慘的景況後，使徒保羅轉而述說上帝憐憫的解決之道。耶穌基督死在十字架上，為罪付出了代價，如此就滿足了上帝公義的要求，對一個憑信心接受耶穌完全付上代價的人，上帝在他的罪債上蓋下「償清』的印記，這就是稱義，其根據是基督的工作：這意味上帝的恩典：必備條件是相信上帝和祂的應許。亞伯拉罕和大衛是歷史的明證，也是今天的榜樣，彰顯出因信稱義怎樣為一個相信上帝的人帶來平和與長進，希望與饒恕。

        和友善的人交朋友、喜歡有人緣、可愛的人都是十分自然的!主動、親切、愉悅都具有不斷吸引別人注意和喜愛的特性，人類的愛往往對自己喜愛對象的特質有所回應。
        上帝的愛卻不是這樣!即使我們在「軟弱』、有「罪」(羅5：6)，還作「罪人」(羅5：8)和「仇敵」(羅5：10)的時候，上帝就向罪人表明祂的愛。上帝的愛絕不是回應的愛，而是一種堅決的行動，上帝愛你，不是「因為你是......。」，而是「不論你是......。」
        你的愛是否和上帝的愛一樣？能夠滿懷關切並憐憫貧困的人、不可愛的人、甚至向令人厭煩的人傳福音？如果不能，向上帝坦承你的愛不夠(祂早已知道)，並深思祂對你無條件的愛，然後藉著上帝的幫助，讓祂的愛從你心中澆灌到另一個極需在今天經歷到愛的人心中。

        稱義的真義
        一個人一旦相信耶穌基督所完成的工作，上帝就以基督的救贖大功塗抹他有罪的記錄，並宣佈這個罪人為義，這就是稱義。或如同－位聖經註釋家所描述的，稱義即是在基督裡，上帝視我為「一個不曾犯罪的人」。

得不到愛的人往往是最需要愛的人。

English

        After painting humanity's sorry condition, the apostle Paul turns to God's merciful solution. Jesus Christ's death on the cross has paid sin's penalty and has satisfied God's righteous demands. To the one who in faith accepts Jesus' full payment. God stamps across the debt of sin, "Paid in Full." That is justification. Its basis is the work of Christ; its means is the grace of God; its requirement is faith in God and His promise. Abraham and David are illustrations from the past and examples for the present, showing how justification brings peace and access, hope and forgiveness, to the one who has faith in God.

        It's only natural to be friends with those who are friendly ... to like those who are likable ... to love those who are lovely. Outgoing, attractive, pleasant people have a magnetic quality about them that draws the attention and affection of others. Human love is a response to favorable qualities in the object of one's affection.
        Not so with God's love! He expressed His love for sinful humanity while we were "without strength" (5:6), "ungodly" (5:6), "sinners" (5:8), and "enemies" (5:10). God's love is not a response at all. It is a decisive act of His will toward the object of His affection. God loves you, not because of... but in spite of you!
        Do you love as God loves, reaching out with concern and compassion to the needy and unlovely and even repulsive? If not, admit your lack of love to God (He knows already); meditate upon His unconditional love for you; then with God's help, allow the "love of God [to be] shed abroad" (5:5) from your heart to the heart of one other person who desperately needs to experience it today.

        A Big Word for a Big Truth —
        Justification means that, on the basis of the individual's faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, God places to his account the spotless mer¬its of Christ, and declares the sinner "righteous." Or as one commentator has described it, justification means that, in Christ, God sees me "just as if I'd never sinned."

Those who deserve love the least are the ones who need it the most.