Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Romans 4:24 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 24. 24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
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Quick Meaning
This verse extends reckoning to believers in the God who raised Jesus from the dead.
Read It With
- Romans 4:13–25
Read Romans 4:24 with 4:13–25. This verse extends reckoning to believers in the God who raised Jesus from the dead. The complete unit establishes: Grace-secured promise centers faith in the God who gives life to the dead and raised Jesus.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Paul moves from circumcision's timing to promise's character and Christian resurrection faith. Within that movement, this verse extends reckoning to believers in the God who raised Jesus from the dead.
Follow the Context
- Inheritance rests on promise secured by grace rather than law as wage.
- Abraham hopes in the life-giving God amid embodied impossibility.
- The reckoning account extends to believers in the God who raised Jesus.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Abraham's hope does not guarantee pregnancy, healing, wealth, or a selected outcome.
What Remains True
This verse extends reckoning to believers in the God who raised Jesus from the dead. This supports the unit's enduring claim: Grace-secured promise centers faith in the God who gives life to the dead and raised Jesus.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Romans 4:24, preserve this contribution in practice: extends reckoning to believers in the God who raised Jesus from the dead. Hold hope and bodily reality together without blaming infertile or suffering people.
Teach It Back
Explain Romans 4:24 inside Romans 4:13–25, including its role, the surrounding movement, one material uncertainty, and one use the unit rejects.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Romans 4:13–25 — Promise Rests on Grace and Trusts the God Who Gives LifeSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The world promise, Abraham's unwavering faith, and delivered/raised for our justification each carry substantial interpretive debate.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Romans 4:13–25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, and base text for original-language discussion.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT repository, data/sblgnt/text/Rom.txt, 4:13–25
Open the Romans Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible - Romans with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005-2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level syntax, KJV-era wording, material variants, and interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible official Romans chapter print view, 4:13–25, translation and attached translator, study, and textual notes
Open NET Romans 4 notesmodern open commentary
Romans
Donny Ray Mathis II
The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary, 2023
Supports: Complete evangelical Protestant whole-letter exposition, historical setting, argument flow, and theological synthesis.
Exact location: Mathis, 'Romans,' introduction and commentary section covering 4:13–25, with bibliography and endnotes
Open source ↗modern catholic translation notes
The Letter to the Romans: introduction and chapter notes
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2010-2026 online edition
Supports: Catholic exegetical orientation, salvation-history frame, concise verse notes, and faith-new-life synthesis.
Exact location: USCCB, Romans introduction and chapter notes covering 4:13–25
Open source ↗modern jewish annotated new testament
Romans introduction and annotations in The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Mark D. Nanos; edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
Oxford University Press, 2011
Supports: Jewish historical context, Paul-within-Judaism alternatives, diatribe restraint, and anti-supersessionist controls.
Exact location: Nanos, Jewish Annotated New Testament, first edition print pp. 253-286, introduction and annotations on 4:13–25
Open source ↗landmark peer reviewed lecture
The New Perspective on Paul
James D. G. Dunn
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 65.2, 1983
Supports: Classic New Perspective proposal about works of law, covenant identity, boasting, and Romans 2-4 and 11.
Exact location: Dunn, 'The New Perspective on Paul,' BJRL 65.2 (1983), journal pp. 95-122 plus later additional note
Open source ↗peer reviewed apocalyptic reading
Places of Power in Paul's Letter to the Romans
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Interpretation 76.4, 2022
Supports: Abstract-level apocalyptic thesis about God's rescue of creatures from Sin and Death and renewed creaturely agency.
Exact location: Gaventa, 'Places of Power in Paul's Letter to the Romans,' Interpretation 76.4 (2022), public abstract only
Open source ↗