Romans 5:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Romans 5:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:13
Greater love hath 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 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 John 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Topics

Atheism Atonement Attributes of God Blood Condescension of God Despondency Expiation God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-21)

The apostle here describes the fountain and foundation of justification, laid in the death of the Lord Jesus. The streams are very sweet, but, if you run them up to the spring-head, you will find it to be Christ’s dying for us; it is in the precious stream of Christ’s blood that all these privileges come flowing to us: and therefore he enlarges upon this instance of the love of God which is shed a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

6-8. For when we were yet without strength--that is, powerless to deliver ourselves, and so ready to perish. in due time--at the appointed season. Christ died for the ungodly--Three signal properties of God’s love are here given: First, “Christ died for the ungodly,” whose character, so far from meriting any interposition in their behalf, was altogether repulsive to the eye of God; second, He did…