Romans 5:7

Weymouth NT

Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps some one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay down his life.

Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people's mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.'«

John 15:13

No one has greater love than this–a man laying down his life for his friends.

Acts 11:24

For he was a good man, and was full of the Holy Spirit and of faith; and the number of believers in the Lord greatly increased.

Romans 16:4

friends who have endangered their own lives for mine. I am grateful to them, and not I alone, but all the Gentile Churches also.

Romans 5:6

For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:8

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

1 John 3:16

We know what love is–through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.