Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
For while we were still helpless, at [just] the proper time, Christ died for ungodly people.
New American Standard Bible
For while we were still
King James Version
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Holman Bible
For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment,
International Standard Version
For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.
A Conservative Version
For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.
American Standard Version
For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
Amplified
While we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly.
Anderson New Testament
For when we were yet without strength, at the appointed time, Christ died for the ungodly.
Bible in Basic English
For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
Common New Testament
When we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.
Darby Translation
for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.
Godbey New Testament
For we being yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly:
Goodspeed New Testament
For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.
John Wesley New Testament
For when we were yet without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly.
Julia Smith Translation
For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.
King James 2000
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [while] we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.
Modern King James verseion
For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For when we were yet weak according to the time: Christ died for us which were ungodly.
Moffatt New Testament
For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!
Montgomery New Testament
For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.
NET Bible
For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
New Heart English Bible
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Noyes New Testament
For while we were yet without strength, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
Sawyer New Testament
For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;
The Emphasized Bible
Seeing that, Christ, we being weak as yet, seasonably, in behalf of such as were ungodly, died.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For even then when we were without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.
Webster
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Weymouth New Testament
For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.
Williams New Testament
For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.
World English Bible
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Worrell New Testament
For, while we were yet weak, Christ, in due season, died for the ungodly.
Worsley New Testament
For when we were yet without strength, Christ died in due season for the ungodly.
Youngs Literal Translation
For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;
Themes
under the law Atonement » Typical of Christ's atonement
Justification » Justification coming by jesus Christ
Reconciliation » Jesus Christ reconciling man to God
Reconciliation with God » Effected for men » Without strength
human Weakness » Helplessness, physical and spiritual of man
Interlinear
Asthenes
Apothnesko
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 5:6
Prayers for Romans 5:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Reconciliation With God Through Faith In Christ
5 And [having such] hope keeps us from being disappointed, because God's love [for us] has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who was given to us [by God]. 6 For while we were still helpless, at [just] the proper time, Christ died for ungodly people. 7 Someone would not likely die to rescue a righteous person, though possibly someone would dare to die in order to rescue a good person.
Cross References
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 4:25
[This] Jesus was delivered up [to die] for our sins and was raised [from the dead] to make us right with God.
Galatians 4:4
But, when [God's] timing fully arrived, He sent His Son, born to a woman [i.e., Mary], born during [the time when] the law [of Moses was still in effect],
Ephesians 2:1-5
And you [Gentiles] were once [spiritually] dead because of your shortcomings and sins.
Romans 4:5
But to the person who believes in God, who makes ungodly people right with Himself apart from doing good deeds, that person's faith is considered by God [as the basis] for being righteous.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were [God's] enemies, we were restored to fellowship with Him through the death of His Son, now that we have been restored, how much more [certainly] will we be saved [from condemnation] by His life!
Romans 11:26
And so [i.e., in this way] all the Israelites will be saved. [Note: The "all" here is thought by many to refer to a large number of the physical Jews who will be saved, not necessarily to every single individual Jew]. Even as it is written [Isa. 59:20-21], "The Deliverer [i.e., Christ] will come from Zion [i.e., the city of Jerusalem, or from the nation of Israel]. He will take away the wickedness from Jacob [i.e., the Jews]."
Colossians 2:13
And when you were [spiritually] dead because of your sins and your lack of being physically circumcised [Note: This refers to their having been unconverted Gentiles and therefore outside of a relationship with God], God made you alive [again] together with Christ, having forgiven us for all of our sins.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God did not appoint us to [suffer His] wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ
1 Timothy 1:9
We [also] know this: Law [or, "the law of Moses"] is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawbreakers and rebels, for ungodly people and sinners, for unholy and irreverent people, for people who kill their parents, for murderers,
Titus 2:12
It instructs us to give up ungodly living and worldly desires and to live sensible, righteous and godly lives in this present age,
Titus 3:3-5
For we [Christians] were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various kinds of [evil] desires and [sinful] pleasures. [We used to] live in malice and envy, hating people and being hated by them.
Hebrews 9:26
For then He would have had to suffer often since the creation of the world; but now at the end of the ages [i.e., the final period of world history] He has been revealed once [for all] to remove sin by sacrificing Himself.
1 Peter 1:20
For Christ was previously known [by God, even] before the world was created, yet was not fully revealed for your benefit until [these] final times.
2 Peter 2:5-6
and if He did not spare the ancient world of Noah's day, when He brought a flood on those ungodly people (though Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven other people, were saved from it);
2 Peter 3:7
But, by means of the same word [of God], the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, awaiting the judgment and destruction [by God], along with [its] ungodly people.
Jude 1:4
For certain men have secretly infiltrated [your ranks]; they are men who had been written about long ago that they should be judged [and condemned] for perverting the unearned favor of our God into [a license for] living unrestrained, indecent lives, and who deny [the identity and work of] our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:15
to bring judgment upon all [such people], and to convict every person of their ungodly behavior, which they have wickedly committed, and of all the evil things that [such] ungodly sinners have spoken against God."
Jude 1:18
for they were saying to you people, "In the last times [See I John 2:18; Heb. 1:1-2] there will be mockers [arise], who will live according to their [own] ungodly desires."