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Romans Chapter 5 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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BBE Romans 5:8

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.
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DARBY Romans 5:8

but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
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KJV Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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WBT Romans 5:8


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WEB Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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YLT Romans 5:8

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
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Romans 5 : 8 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - But God commendeth his own love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The emphatic "his own" is lost sight of in the Authorized Version. It is not in contrast to our love to God, but expressive of the thought that the love of God himself towards men was displayed in the death of Christ. This is important for our true conception of the light in which the mysterious doctrine of the atonement is regarded in Holy Scripture. It is not (as represented by some schools of theologians) that the Son, considered apart from the Father, offered himself to appease his wrath - as seems to be expressed in the lines, "Actus in crucem factus es Irato Deo victima" - but rather that the Divine love itself purposed from eternity and provided the atonement, all the Persons of the holy and undivided Trinity concurring to effect it (cf. Romans 3:24; Romans 8:32; Ephesians 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:16: John 3:16; 1 John 4:10, et al.). If it be asked how this Divine love, displayed in the atonement, and therefore previous to it, is consistent with what is elsewhere so continually said of the Divine wrath, we answer that the ideas are not irreconcilable. The wrath expresses God's necessary antagonism to sin, and the retribution due to it, inseparable from a true conception of the Divine righteousness; and as long as men arc under the dominion of sin they are of necessity involved in it: But this is not inconsistent with ever-abiding Divine love towards the persons of sinners, or with an eternal purpose to redeem them. It may be added here that the passage Before us intimates our Lord's essential Deity; for his sacrifice of himself is spoken of as the display of God's own love.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Commendeth.--The English word happily covers the double meaning of the Greek. The same word is used (1) of things in the sense of "prove" or "establish," here and in Romans 3:5; (2) of persons in the sense of "recommend," in Romans 16:1.His love.--Strictly, His own love. The love both of God and of Christ is involved in the atonement. Its ultimate cause is the love of God, which is here in question. The love of Christ is evidenced by the fact of His death; the love of God is evidenced by the love of Christ.Toward us.--The question whether these words should be taken as in the English version, "His love to, or toward, us," or whether they should not rather be joined with "commendeth"--"commendeth to us"--is chiefly one of reading, the words being variously placed in the different authorities. The balance of evidence is close, but perhaps the translation may be allowed to remain as it is.Sinners.--There is, of course, a stress upon this word in contrast to "the righteous man," "the good man," of the preceding verse.