Romans 5:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
God proves his love by the timing of the cross: Christ died for us while we were still sinners—not after we cleaned ourselves up. His love comes first, undeserved.
Read the full meaning“But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 5:8 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
- Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Ephesians 2:7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 1:16But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
- 1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
- 1 John 4:9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
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