Romans 5:8

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Summary

Romans 5:8

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

Commendeth

In that

General references

Numbers 7:15

John 15:13

Bible References

Commendeth

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

In that

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

General references

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.