Romans 5:6
For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
In Context
7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.
Cross References
Numbers 7:15A little mortar of ten sides of gold full of incense:
Lamentations 1:6Vau. And from the daughter of Sion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like rams that find no pastures: and they are gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.
Daniel 11:15And the king of the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take the best fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up to resist, and they shall not have strength.
Romans 4:25Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification.
Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:
Matthew Henry on Romans 5:2-6
Justification and Its Effects. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto… Read the whole commentary →