Romans 5:8
But God demonstrated his own love for us in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Text-Critical English NT
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
John 15:13No one has greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Romans 5:20Now the law came in so that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,
Ephesians 2:7so that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace through his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring us to God. He was 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 →