Romans 5:8

Weymouth NT

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

Cross References

John 15:13

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

John 3:16

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous –I speak in our everyday language– when He inflicts punishment?

Romans 4:25

who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.

Romans 5:20

Now Law was brought in later on, so that transgression might increase. But where sin increased, grace has overflowed;

Romans 5:6

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

Romans 5:7

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.

Romans 8:32

He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Romans 8:39

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God which rests upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

Ephesians 2:7

in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.

Ephesians 5:2

And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

1 Timothy 1:16

But mercy was shown me in order that in me as the foremost of sinners Christ Jesus might display the fulness of His long-suffering patience as an example to encourage those who would afterwards be resting their faith on Him with a view to the Life of the Ages.

Hebrews 8:3

Every High Priest, however, is appointed to offer both bloodless gifts and sacrifices. Therefore this High Priest also must have some offering to present.

1 Peter 3:18

because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

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.