11 translations · Greek
Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- KJV King James Version
- But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- and God commends His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ died for us;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- But God demonstrates his love for us in that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
- DBY Darby Translation
- but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| συνίστησιν | synistēsin | proves | G4921 συνίστημι, συνιστάω to commend |
| δὲ | de | But | G1161 δέ then |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἑαυτοῦ | heautou | His | G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself |
| ἀγάπην | agapēn | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| εἰς | eis | for | G1519 εἰς toward |
| ἡμᾶς | hēmas | us | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεὸς | Theos | God | G2316 θεός God |
| ὅτι | hoti | in this | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| ἔτι | eti | still | G2089 ἔτι still |
| ἁμαρτωλῶν | hamartōlōn | sinners | G268 ἁμαρτωλός sinful |
| ὄντων | ontōn | were | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ἡμῶν | hēmōn | While we | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| Χριστὸς | Christos | Christ | G5547 Χριστός Christ |
| ὑπὲρ | hyper | for | G5228 ὑπέρ above/for |
| ἡμῶν | hēmōn | us | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| ἀπέθανεν | apethanen | died | G599 ἀποθνήσκω to die |
Related verses
- John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone 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 whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Romans 5:6
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- 1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- 1 John 4:9–10
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Ephesians 2:7
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
- Romans 4:25
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
- Ephesians 1:6–8
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved, in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
Read all of Romans 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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