Romans 5:8
but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!
Family 35 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 15:13No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.
Romans 5:20However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,
Ephesians 2:7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18Because Christ also suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God; having been put to death, to be sure, in flesh, but having been 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 →