Romans 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ But God proves his love for us in that while we still were 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Romans 5:8 Cross References

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

John 15:13

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

Romans 3:5

But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

Romans 4:25

who was handed over for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Romans 5:20

But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 5:6

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

Romans 5:7

Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.

Romans 8:32

He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else?

Romans 8:39

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 2:20

and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 2:7

so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 Timothy 1:16

But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience as an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.

Hebrews 8:3

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.