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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 5:8 Catholic Bible: But God has shown us how much he loves us--it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us! </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/romans/5-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/romans/5-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/romans/5-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/romans/1.htm">Romans</a> > <a href="/gntd/romans/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/5-7.htm" title="Romans 5:7">◄</a> Romans 5:8 <a href="../romans/5-9.htm" title="Romans 5:9">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/romans/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/romans/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But God has shown us how much he loves us--it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/romans/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/romans/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/romans/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/romans/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.</p><p class="hdg">commendeth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/5-20.htm">Romans 5:20</a> Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/3-5.htm">Romans 3:5</a> But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/15-13.htm">John 15:13</a> Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/1-6.htm">Ephesians 1:6-8</a> Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/2-7.htm">Ephesians 2:7</a> That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/1-16.htm">1 Timothy 1:16</a> But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.</p><p class="hdg">in that.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/53-6.htm">Isaiah 53:6</a> All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/3-18.htm">1 Peter 3:18</a> Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-16.htm">1 John 3:16</a> In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9,10</a> By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/romans/5.htm">Christ's Sacrifice for the Ungodly</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.</span> <span class="reftext">9</span>Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/3-16.htm">John 3:16</a></span><br />For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/15-13.htm">John 15:13</a></span><br />Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/3-5.htm">Romans 3:5</a></span><br />But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/4-25.htm">Romans 4:25</a></span><br />Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/5-6.htm">Romans 5:6</a></span><br />For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/5-7.htm">Romans 5:7</a></span><br />For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/8-32.htm">Romans 8:32</a></span><br />He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/8-39.htm">Romans 8:39</a></span><br />Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/2-20.htm">Galatians 2:20</a></span><br />And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2</a></span><br />And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/8-3.htm">Hebrews 8:3</a></span><br />For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-10.htm">1 John 4:10</a></span><br />In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/5-6.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/romans/1-6.htm">Christ's</a> <a href="/romans/3-31.htm">Clear</a> <a href="/romans/3-5.htm">Commend</a> <a href="/romans/3-5.htm">Commendeth</a> <a href="/romans/3-5.htm">Commends</a> <a href="/romans/3-5.htm">Demonstrates</a> <a href="/romans/5-7.htm">Die</a> <a href="/romans/5-6.htm">Died</a> <a href="/john/11-37.htm">Dying</a> <a href="/romans/5-4.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/romans/5-5.htm">Love</a> <a href="/romans/2-15.htm">Proof</a> <a href="/romans/2-11.htm">Shows</a> <a href="/john/9-31.htm">Sinners</a> <a href="/romans/5-1.htm">Towards</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/romans/5-11.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/romans/5-10.htm">Christ's</a> <a href="/romans/7-1.htm">Clear</a> <a href="/romans/13-3.htm">Commend</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-8.htm">Commendeth</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/10-18.htm">Commends</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-3.htm">Demonstrates</a> <a href="/romans/6-9.htm">Die</a> <a href="/romans/5-15.htm">Died</a> <a href="/romans/7-6.htm">Dying</a> <a href="/romans/6-23.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/romans/8-28.htm">Love</a> <a href="/romans/9-18.htm">Proof</a> <a href="/romans/9-18.htm">Shows</a> <a href="/romans/5-19.htm">Sinners</a> <a href="/romans/5-18.htm">Towards</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: But Christ demonstrates died for God his in love own sinners still that this toward us we were While yet<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/5-8.htm">NT Letters: Romans 5:8 But God commends his own love toward (Rom. 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