Romans 5:7
For scarcely for [the] just [man] will one die, for perhaps for [the] good [man] some one might also dare to die;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6for we being still without strength, in [the] due time Christ has died for [the] ungodly.
8but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
Cross References
2 Samuel 18:3But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth, for if we should in any case flee, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; for *thou* art worth ten thousand of us; and now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
2 Samuel 23:14And David was then in the stronghold; and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.
John 15:13No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 16:4(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)
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 →