Romans 5:6
4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- KJV
- For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- WEB
- For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- ASV
- For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
- DARBY
- for we being still without strength, in [the] due time Christ has died for [the] ungodly.
- BLB
- Still indeed Christ, [in] our still being weak, according to the right time, died for the ungodly.
- ÅB
- For mens vi enda var skrøpelige, døde Kristus til fastsatt tid for ugudelige.
- OTB
- For mens vi ennå var maktesløse, døde Kristus for de ugudelige til rett tid.
- B1930
- For mens vi ennu var skrøpelige, døde Kristus til fastsatt tid for ugudelige.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 2:1–5
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Read in contextRomans 5:8
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Read in contextColossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
Read in contextTitus 3:3–5
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Read in contextRomans 5:10
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
Read in contextRomans 4:25
He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
Read in contextTitus 2:12
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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