Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
American Standard 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 Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
Romans 5:20And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:
Ephesians 2:7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:
1 Peter 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the 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 →