Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
English Majority Text (NT)
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
9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Cross References
John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our transgressions, and was raised for our justification.
Romans 5:20But the law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,
Ephesians 2:7that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by 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 →