Romans 5:8
But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
John 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.
Romans 5:20And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,
Ephesians 2:7So that in the coming ages he might show the transcending wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,
Matthew Henry on Romans 5:7-21
The First and the Second Adam; The Influence of Grace. ( a. d. 58.) 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the… Read the whole commentary →