Devine Scripture

Romans 5:8

Romans chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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

v.8This passage

v.9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 53:6

    All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  • Romans 3:5

    But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

  • 1 Peter 3:18

    Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

  • Ephesians 1:6

    to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

  • Romans 5:20

    And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

  • Romans 4:25

    who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.