Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

New American Standard Bible

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

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, Christ died for the ungodly.

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.

An Understandable Version

For while we were still helpless, at [just] the proper time, Christ died for ungodly people.

Anderson New Testament

For when we were yet without strength, at the appointed time, Christ died for the ungodly.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

we
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

yet
ἔτι 
Eti 
Usage: 75

ἀσθενής 
Asthenes 
Usage: 19

in due
κατά 
Kata 
according to, after, against, in, by, daily , as,
Usage: 428

καιρός 
Kairos 
Usage: 63

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

for
ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

Devotionals

Devotionals about Romans 5:6

Images Romans 5:6

Prayers for Romans 5:6

Context Readings

Reconciliation With God Through Faith In Christ

5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us. 6 For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers. 7 Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

Cross References

Romans 5:8

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

Romans 4:25

Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Ephesians 2:1-5

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

Psalm 1:1

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

Lamentations 1:6

And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

Ezekiel 16:4-8

As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.

Daniel 11:15

So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.

Romans 4:5

But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

Romans 11:26

And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:

Colossians 2:13

And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Timothy 1:9

With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

Titus 2:12

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Titus 3:3-5

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Hebrews 9:26

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

1 Peter 1:20

Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

2 Peter 2:5-6

And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

2 Peter 3:7

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:15

To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

Jude 1:18

How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

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