Romans 5:8
God hath here manifested his love towards us. Because, if when we were sinners, Messiah died for us;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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
9how much more, shall we now be justified by his blood and be rescued from wrath by him?
Cross References
John 15:13There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up, on account of our sins; and arose, that he might justify us.
Romans 5:20And the entrance given to the law, was that sin might increase: and where sin increased, there grace abounded.
Ephesians 2:7that he might show to the coming ages the magnitude of the riches of his grace, and his benignity towards us in Jesus the Messiah.
1 Peter 3:18For the Messiah also once died for our sins, the righteous for sinners; that he might bring you to God. And he died in body, but lived 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 →