Romans 5:6

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

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  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Eph 2:1-5 : 1 New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins, 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest… 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
  • Col 2:13 : 13 And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.
  • 2 Pet 2:5-6 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world, 6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,
  • 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
  • Rom 4:5 : 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.
  • Ps 1:1 : 1 ¶ Book 1(Psalms 1-41) How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!
  • Ezek 16:4-8 : 4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born. 6 “‘I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood,“Live!” I said to you as you lay there in your blood,“Live!” 7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare. 8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
  • Dan 11:15 : 15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. They will have no strength to prevail.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 11:26 : 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:“The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
  • Lam 1:6 : 6 ו(Vav) All of Daughter Zion’s splendor has departed. Her leaders became like deer; they found no pasture, so they were too exhausted to escape from the hunter.
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

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    7(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

    8But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

    10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

    11Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

    12The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–

    13for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

  • Eph 2:4-5
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

    5even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

    15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 6:5-8
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    5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

    6We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

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    18Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

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    10He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

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    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

    10In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

  • 2 Cor 13:4
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    4For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

  • Rom 6:23
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    23For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 4:5
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    5But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

  • Titus 3:3-5
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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

    4But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

    5he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

  • Rom 5:5
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    5And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

  • Gal 5:5
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    5For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

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    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

    3For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

  • Eph 2:1
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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

  • 2 Cor 4:11-12
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    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

    25God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

  • Rom 5:21
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    21so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • Rom 8:10
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    10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

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    16For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 1:20
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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

  • 2 Cor 1:9
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    9Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

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    1The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Col 1:22
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    22but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–

  • Rom 8:36
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    36As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”