Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Noyes Bible
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, were going astray; We turned every one to his own way, And Jehovah laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
John 15:13Greater love hath no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.
Romans 5:20Moreover the law came in in addition, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded much more;
Ephesians 2:7that he might show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous one for the unrighteous, that he might bring you 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 →