But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 · World English Bible
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The same threadJohn 3:16
God loved the world, so He gave His Son while we were still sinners.
“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.”
The same threadRomans 8:32
'He who did not spare his own Son': the love proven at the cross.
“He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?”
The same thread1 John 4:9-10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son.
“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.”
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The same thread (this verse)Isaiah 53:6
While we were still sinners, the sheep who had gone astray, Christ died for us.
“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.”
The same thread (this verse)1 Corinthians 15:3
Christ died for the ungodly: 'for our sins,' as the gospel says.
“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,”