Romans 5:8

In 9 translations

BSB

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

KJV

But God commendeth his love toward 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.

ASV

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

LSV

and God commends His own love to us, that, in our being still 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;

DBY

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

DRC

But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,

GNV

But God setteth out his loue towards vs, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for vs.

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SBLGNT

συνίστησιν δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀγάπην εἰς ἡμᾶς ὁ θεὸς ὅτι ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν.

RP2018

Συνίστησιν δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀγάπην εἰς ἡμᾶς ὁ θεός, ὅτι ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν.

TR-Boyd

Συνίστησι δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀγάπην εἰς ἡμᾶς ὁ Θεός, ὅτι ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανε.

SCR1894

συνιστησιν δε την εαυτου αγαπην εις ημας ο θεος οτι ετι αμαρτωλων οντων ημων χριστος υπερ ημων απεθανεν

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• John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
• John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
• Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
• 1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
• 1 John 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as…
• 1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
• Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
• Ephesians 2:7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
• Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
• Ephesians 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He…
• Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• 1 Timothy 1:16But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
• Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

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