Romans 5:8

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

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  • John 15:13 : 13 No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For 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.
  • Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because 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.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 We 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.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By 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. 10 In 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.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
  • Eph 2:7 : 7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he?(I am speaking in human terms.)

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  • Rom 5:6-7
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    6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

  • 1 John 4:9-11
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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.

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

  • Rom 5:9-12
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    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–

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Thess 5:9-10
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    9For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

  • John 3:16-17
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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.

    17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

  • Titus 3:4-5
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    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 8:36-37
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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.”

    37No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

  • 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 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.

  • John 15:13
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    13No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.

  • Rom 5:1
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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,

  • 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.

  • 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 6:7-8
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    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.

  • 1 Pet 3:18
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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.

  • Rom 8:31-32
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    31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

    32Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

  • 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.

  • 1 John 4:19
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    19We love because he loved us first.

  • 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,

  • Eph 5:2
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    2and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

  • Rom 8:34
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    34Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died(and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

  • 1 John 2:2
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    2and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

  • 2 Cor 5:19
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    19In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.

  • Rom 8:1-3
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    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    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,

  • Rom 14:8
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    8If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

  • Titus 2:14
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    14He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Rom 5:15
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    15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

  • Col 1:14
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    14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.