Romans 5:8 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁸ But God shows his love for 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.

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,

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 the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

John 15:13

Greater love has 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 Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 3:5

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

Romans 4:25

who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Romans 5:20

Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 5:6

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

Romans 5:7

Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man—though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?

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

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

Ephesians 2:7

that in the coming ages 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 I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were 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 died for sins once for all, 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

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.