Romans 5:8
But God shows his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Revised King James 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 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 4:25He was delivered to death for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Romans 5:20The law entered, that offences might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more:
Ephesians 2:7That in the ages to come he might show the incomparable riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18For Christ died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being 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 →