Romans 5:7
Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps some one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay down his life.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
6For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.
8But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.
Cross References
John 15:13No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.
Romans 16:4friends who have endangered their own lives for mine. I am grateful to them, and not I alone, but all the Gentile Churches also.
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 →