Romans 5:8

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

7Why, 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.

9If therefore we have now been pronounced free from guilt through His blood, much more shall we be delivered from God's anger through Him.

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Cross References

John 15:13No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

Romans 4:25who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.

Romans 5:20Now Law was brought in later on, so that transgression might increase. But where sin increased, grace has overflowed;

Ephesians 2:7in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.

1 Peter 3:18because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was 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 →

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