Romans 5:8
Greek Text— Romans 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
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?
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
We love him, because he first loved us.
I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
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.
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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,
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
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.
For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
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.
The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”
Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”