Romans 5:8
But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Montgomery New Testament
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 15:13"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.
Romans 5:20Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;
Ephesians 2:7in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive 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 →