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Romans 5:8

WEB

8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

KJV

8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

BSB

8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

FBV

8But God demonstrates his love for us in that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

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Extra References

John 15:13

13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.


John 3:16

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born[+] Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.


Romans 5:6

6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.


1 Peter 3:18

18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,


1 John 3:16

16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.


1 John 4:9-10

9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born[+] Son into the world that we might live through him. 10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice[+] for our sins.


Isaiah 53:6

6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.


Ephesians 2:7

7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;


Romans 4:25

25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.


Ephesians 1:6-8

6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved. 7In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,