Romans 5:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This demonstrates God's love for us.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

DBY:

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

ERV:

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

WEY:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Romans 5:8 Cross References

XREF:

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

Romans 4:25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

Romans 5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how 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 is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:8 But God {h} commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet {i} sinners, Christ died for us.
(h) He commends his love toward us, so that in the midst of our afflictions we may know assuredly that he will be present with us.
(i) While sin reigned in us.

PNT:

5:8 But God commendeth his love. His love is not like human love. Christ died, not for friends, but for enemies. It was while we were yet sinners that he died for us.

WES:

5:8 But God recommendeth - A most elegant expression. Those are wont to be recommended to us, who were before either unknown to, or alienated from, us. While we were sinners - So far from being good, that we were not even just.

MHC:

5:6-11 Christ died for sinners; not only such as were useless, but such as were guilty and hateful; such that their everlasting destruction would be to the glory of God's justice. Christ died to save us, not in our sins, but from our sins; and we were yet sinners when he died for us. Nay, the carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself, chap. 8:7; Col 1:21. But God designed to deliver from sin, and to work a great change. While the sinful state continues, God loathes the sinner, and the sinner loathes God, Zec 11:8. And that for such as these Christ should die, is a mystery; no other such an instance of love is known, so that it may well be the employment of eternity to adore and wonder at it. Again; what idea had the apostle when he supposed the case of some one dying for a righteous man? And yet he only put it as a thing that might be. Was it not the undergoing this suffering, that the person intended to be benefitted might be released therefrom? But from what are believers in Christ released by his death? Not from bodily death; for that they all do and must endure. The evil, from which the deliverance could be effected only in this astonishing manner, must be more dreadful than natural death. There is no evil, to which the argument can be applied, except that which the apostle actually affirms, sin, and wrath, the punishment of sin, determined by the unerring justice of God. And if, by Divine grace, they were thus brought to repent, and to believe in Christ, and thus were justified by the price of his bloodshedding, and by faith in that atonement, much more through Him who died for them and rose again, would they be kept from falling under the power of sin and Satan, or departing finally from him. The living Lord of all, will complete the purpose of his dying love, by saving all true believers to the uttermost. Having such a pledge of salvation in the love of God through Christ, the apostle declared that believers not only rejoiced in the hope of heaven, and even in their tribulations for Christ's sake, but they gloried in God also, as their unchangeable Friend and all-sufficient Portion, through Christ only.

CONC:

Christ Christ's Clear Commend Commendeth Commends Demonstrates Die Died Dying Gives Love Proof Shows Sinners Towards Yet

Christ Christ's Clear Commend Commendeth Commends Demonstrates Die Died Dying Gives Love Proof Shows Sinners Towards

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