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Romans 5:8

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
συνίστησινsunistēsinDemonstratesG4921 →
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τὴνtēntheG3588 →
ἑαυτοῦhe'autouHis ownG1438 →
ἀγάπηνagapēnloveG26 →
εἰςeistoG1519 →
ἡμᾶςhēmasusG3165 →
ὁho<the>G3588 →
θεός,theosGod,G2316 →
ὅτιhotithatG3754 →
ἔτιetistillG2089 →
ἁμαρτωλῶνhamartōlōnsinnersG268 →
ὄντωνontōnwhen beingG1510 →
ἡμῶνhēmōnweG3165 →
ΧριστὸςChristosChristG5547 →
ὑπὲρhuperforG5228 →
ἡμῶνhēmōnusG3165 →
ἀπέθανεν.apethanendied.G599 →

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John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,1 John 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.Ephesians 2:7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.Romans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.Ephesians 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,1 Timothy 1:16But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.Romans 8:39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Ephesians 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.Ephesians 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!1 John 3:1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

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