Romans 5:8
and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
Young's Literal Translation
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
Isaiah 53:6All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
John 15:13greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
Romans 4:25who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
Romans 5:20And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,
Ephesians 2:7that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 3:18because also Christ once for sin did suffer — righteous for unrighteous — that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been 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 →