Romans 5:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • John 15:13 : 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  • Rom 5:6 : 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Eph 2:7 : 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

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    6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

  • 1 John 4:9-11
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    9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

    10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

  • Rom 5:9-12
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    9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved fm wrath thugh him.

    10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

    11And not only so, but we also joy in God thugh our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

    12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

  • Eph 2:4-5
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    4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

    5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

    15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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    16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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    9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

    10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

  • Titus 3:4-5
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    4But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

    5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

  • Rom 8:36-37
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    36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

    37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquers thugh him that loved us.

  • Rom 6:23
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    23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life thugh Jesus Christ our Lord.

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    24Being justified freely by his grace thugh the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

    25Whom God hath set forth to be a ppitiation thugh faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, thugh the forbearance of God;

  • John 15:13
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    13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  • Rom 5:1
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    1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God thugh our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

    11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God thugh Jesus Christ our Lord.

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    21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

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    7For he that is dead is freed fm sin.

    8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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    18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

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    31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

    32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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    21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign thugh righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

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    19We love him, because he first loved us.

  • Gal 1:4
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    4Who ve himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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    34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

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    2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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    19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

  • Rom 8:1-3
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free fm the law of sin and death.

    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak thugh the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

  • Titus 2:14
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    14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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    15But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if thugh the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

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    14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: