Romans 5:8
Nevertheless Aloha hath manifested his love for us, in that, when we were sinners, the Meshiha for us died:
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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
7for hardly for the wicked one dieth; for on account of the good one may perhaps dare to die.
Cross References
John 15:13Love which is greater than this is not, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered for our sins, and rose that he might justify us.
Romans 5:20But the entrance which was of the law, (made) sin to increase; and where sin increased, there grace hath abounded:
Ephesians 2:7that he might show to the ages to come the greatness of the riches of his grace and his goodness, which hath been upon us in Jeshu the Meshiha.
1 Peter 3:18Because the Meshiha also once died on account of sins, the just on account of sinners, that he might bring us unto Aloha. And dead in the body and 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 →