Romans 5:6

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

WEB

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

ASV

For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

LSV

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time died for the impious;

YLT

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

DBY

for we being still without strength, in [the] due time Christ has died for [the] ungodly.

DRC

For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

GNV

For Christ, when we were yet of no strength, at his time died for the vngodly.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

Ἔτι γὰρ Χριστὸς ὄντων ἡμῶν ἀσθενῶν ἔτι κατὰ καιρὸν ὑπὲρ ἀσεβῶν ἀπέθανεν.

RP2018

Ἔτι γὰρ χριστός, ὄντων ἡμῶν ἀσθενῶν, κατὰ καιρὸν ὑπὲρ ἀσεβῶν ἀπέθανεν.

TR-Boyd

Ἔτι γὰρ Χριστός, ὄντων ἡμῶν ἀσθενῶν, κατὰ καιρὸν ὑπὲρ ἀσεβῶν ἀπέθανε.

SCR1894

ετι γαρ χριστος οντων ημων ασθενων κατα καιρον υπερ ασεβων απεθανεν

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• Ephesians 2:1–5And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.…
• Romans 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• Colossians 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
• Titus 3:3–5For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and…
• Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
• Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• 1 Thessalonians 5:9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Hebrews 9:26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
• Romans 4:5However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
• Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• 1 Timothy 1:9We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
• Ezekiel 16:4–8On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of…
• 1 Peter 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
• 2 Peter 2:5–6if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction,…
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus…

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