Romans 5:7
for scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, for the good man perhaps someone also dares to die;
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
6For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time died for the impious;
8and God commends His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ died for us;
Cross References
2 Samuel 18:3And the people say, “You do not go out, for if we utterly flee, they do not set [their] heart on us; and if half of us die, they do not set [their] heart to us—for [you are] now like ten thousand of us; and now, [it is] better that you are for a helper to us from the city.”
2 Samuel 23:14and David [is] then in a fortress, and the station of the Philistines [is] then in Beth-Lehem,
John 15:13greater love has no one than this, that anyone may lay down his life for his friends;
Romans 16:4who laid down their own neck for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, 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 →