Romans 5:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • John 15:13 : 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world 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 as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Eph 2:7 : 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
  • Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

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

    7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

  • 1 John 4:9-11
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    9By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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

    11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

  • Rom 5:9-12
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    9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

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

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

    12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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

    5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • 2 Cor 5:14-15
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    14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

    15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  • 1 Thess 5:9-10
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    9For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

  • John 3:16-17
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    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    17For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge 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 toward mankind appeared,

    5not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

  • Rom 8:36-37
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    36Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

    37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

    25whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

  • John 15:13
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    13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

  • Rom 5:1
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    1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    10For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

    11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7For he who has died has been freed from sin.

    8But 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 for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but 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?

    32He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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

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    19We love him, because he first loved us.

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father--

  • Eph 5:2
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    2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  • Rom 8:34
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    34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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

  • 2 Cor 5:19
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    19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

  • Rom 8:1-3
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

    3For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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    8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

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    14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then death works in us, but life in you.

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    15But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

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