Romans 5:8
And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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
John 15:13No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered on account of our transgressions, and raised for our justification.
Romans 5:20But the law came, that the transgression might abound; but where sin did abound, there did grace superabound:
Ephesians 2:7in order that he may show in coming ages the superabounding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18Because Christ indeed once died for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in 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 →