Verse 8

But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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  • John 15:13 : 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more.
  • Eph 2:7 : 7 So that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, 8 which He lavished on us in all wisdom and understanding.
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the foremost of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust for bringing His wrath on us? (I am speaking in human terms.)