Romans 5:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Isaiah 53:6

We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt 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 might not perish but might have eternal life.

Romans 3:5

But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?

Romans 4:25

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

Romans 5:20

The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,

Romans 5:6

For Christ, while we were still helpless, yet died at the appointed time for the ungodly.

Romans 5:7

Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?

Romans 8:39

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 2:20

yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.

Ephesians 2:7

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

Ephesians 5:2

and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.

1 Timothy 1:16

But for that reason I was mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an example for those who would come to believe in him for everlasting life.

Hebrews 8:3

Now every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus the necessity for this one also to have something to offer.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit.

1 John 3:16

The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.