Bible Strands
Romans 5:8
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Roman believers mid-argument for justification by faith, having just noted in v. 7 that even the righteous rarely receive such a death.
The words — ἀγάπην (agapēn) is the object being demonstrated; συνὶστησιν (sunistēsin) carries the sense of a public, deliberate proof rather than a private feeling.
The thread — John 15:13 frames dying for friends as the peak of love; Romans 5:6 specifies the timing (the "right time" while we were powerless); John 3:16 widens the scope to "the world."
Why it lands — The reader is the sinner inside the sentence; the demonstration was made before any response was given, so the verse forecloses the question of whether one deserves to be included.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Greek words
King James Version
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Cross-references
- John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- John 3:16 For 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 5:6 For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- 1 Peter 3:18 For 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 This 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 3:16 By 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 53:6 We 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 2:7 in 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 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.