After the blessing of justification for sinners (3:21–31), and after the blessing of the Gentiles’ becoming members of God’s new covenant people (4:1–25), Paul mentions in 5:1–2a another consequence of the revelation of God’s saving righteousness through Jesus Christ: peace with God. The godless and disobedient sinners of 1:18–3:30 have been granted peace with God, as they have come to faith in God and in his work of salvation in Jesus Christ. In verse 2 Paul clarifies that this peace is not a subjective feeling of peacefulness in the soul but the objective fact that God’s wrath has been removed through Jesus’s death and that sinners have now been granted access to God’s grace, that is, to the realm in which God’s redeeming love for sinners reigns (cf. 4:21). Having excluded boasting (3:2…