Romans 5:8
Good News Translation
But God has shown us how much he loves us--it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

New Revised Standard Version
But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.

Contemporary English Version
But God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful.

New American Bible
But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

commendeth.

Romans 5:20 Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

Romans 3:5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

John 15:13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Ephesians 1:6-8 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son. . . .

Ephesians 2:7 That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:16 But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

in that.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

1 John 3:16 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 John 4:9,10 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. . . .

Context
Christ's Sacrifice for the Ungodly
7For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die. 8But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time. 9Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.…
Cross References
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

John 15:13
Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 3:5
But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.

Romans 5:6
For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

Romans 5:7
For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

Romans 8:32
He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

Romans 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 2:20
And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Hebrews 8:3
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

1 John 4:10
In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

Romans 5:7
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