Romans 5:8 - American Standard Version (1901)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

Common English Bible

⁸ But God shows his love for us, because while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,

English Standard Version 2016

⁸ but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8 Cross References

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

Romans 4:25

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

Romans 5:20

And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

Romans 5:6

For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:7

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

Romans 8:32

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give 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

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Ephesians 2:7

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

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

1 Timothy 1:16

howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.

Hebrews 8:3

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have somewhat to offer.

1 Peter 3:18

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

1 John 3:16

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.