Romans 5:8
and God commends His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ died for us;
Literal 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.
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Cross References
Isaiah 53:6All of us, like sheep, have wandered, || Man has turned to his own way, || And YHWH has laid on Him the punishment of us all.
John 15:13greater love has no one than this, that anyone may lay down his life for his friends;
Romans 4:25who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
Romans 5:20And law came in, that the offense might abound, and where sin abounded, grace hyper-abounded,
Ephesians 2:7that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 3:18also because Christ suffered once for sin—righteous for unrighteous—that He might lead us to God, indeed having been put to death in the flesh, but having been 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 →