Romans 5:8

8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8 in Other Translations

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

8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

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

8 Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This demonstrates God's love for us.

8 But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

8 But here is how God has shown his love for us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his love towards us
That is, he hath manifested it, which was before hid in his heart; he has given clear evidence of it, a full proof and demonstration of it; he has so confirmed it by this instance, that there is no room nor reason to doubt of it; he has illustrated and set it off with the greater lustre by this circumstance of it,

in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
God's elect were sinners in Adam, in whom they were naturally and federally, as all mankind were; hence polluted and guilty; and so they are in their own persons whilst unregenerate: they are dead in sin, and live in it, commit it, are slaves unto it, and are under the power and dominion of it; and many of them are the chief and vilest of sinners; and such they were considered when Christ died for them: but are not God's people sinners after conversion? yes; but sin has not the dominion over them; their life is not a course of sinning, as before; and besides, they are openly justified and pardoned, as well as renewed, and sanctified, and live in newness of life; so that their characters now are taken, not from their worse, but better part. And that before conversion is particularly mentioned here, to illustrate the love of God to them, notwithstanding this their character and condition; and to show that the love of God to them was very early; it anteceded their conversion; it was before the death of Christ for them; yea, it was from everlasting: and also to express the freeness of it, and to make it appear, that it did not arise from any loveliness in them; or from any love in them to him; nor from any works of righteousness done by them, but from his own sovereign will and pleasure.

Romans 5:8 In-Context

6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Cross References

• 1. John 3:16; John 15:13; 1 Peter 3:18; 1John 3:16; 1 John 4:10