Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 in other translations
| BSB | But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. |
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| WEB | But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
| ASV | But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
| YLT | and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us; |
| DARBY | but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us. |
| BBE | But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us. |
| Webster | But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
What does Romans 5:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 5:6-8
6-8. For when we were yet without strength--that is, powerless to deliver ourselves, and so ready to perish. in due time--at the appointed season. Christ died for the ungodly--Three signal properties of God's love are here given: First, "Christ died for the ungodly," whose character, so far from meriting any interposition in their behalf, was altogether repulsive to the eye of God; second, He did this "when they…
Barnes' Notes
His love. His kind feeling; his beneficence; his willingness to submit to sacrifice to do good to others.
While we were yet sinners. And of course his enemies. In this, his love surpasses all that has ever been manifested among men.
Christ died for us. In our stead; to save us from death, he took our place; and, by dying himself on the cross, saved us from dying eternally in hell.
(m) "while we were yet sinners" Jn 15:13, 1Pet 3:18, 1Jn 3:16
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 5:6-11
Christ died for sinners; not only such as were useless, but such as were guilty and hateful; such that their everlasting destruction would be to the glory of God's justice. Christ died to save us, not in our sins, but from our sins; and we were yet sinners when he died for us. Nay, the carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself, chap. 8:7; Col 1:21. But God designed to deliver from sin, and to work a…
Romans 5:8 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 5:8
- John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- Romans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- 1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- 1 John 4:9-10
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- 1 John 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
- Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Ephesians 2:7
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
- Romans 4:25
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
- Ephesians 1:6-8
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
- Romans 5:20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- 1 Timothy 1:16
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
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Context
- Romans 5:7
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
- Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans 5:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas Dios encarece su caridad para con nosotros, porque siendo aún pecadores, Cristo murió por nosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais Dieu constate son amour à lui envers nous, en ce que, lorsque nous étions encore pécheurs, Christ est mort pour nous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gott aber erweist seine Liebe gegen uns darin, daß Christus, da wir noch Sünder waren, für uns gestorben ist. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Commendat autem caritatem suam Deus in nobis: quoniam cum adhuc peccatores essemus, secundum tempus, |