Romans 5:8
But God makes known his love to us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us:
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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
John 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.
Romans 5:20But, besides the first offense, law was introduced, in order that offenses might abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Ephesians 2:7that he might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of his grace by his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, having been put to death 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 →