Romans 5:5-8

Peace with God Through Faith

5 and h hope does not put us to shame, because God's love i has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

6 For j while we were still weak, at the right time k Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die - 8 but l God shows his love for us in that m while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 119:116
    Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
    Philippians 1:20
    As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
  2. Cross References
    Acts 2:17 - 18
    'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
    Acts 2:33
    Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
    Titus 3:6
    Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
    Galatians 4:6
    And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
  3. Cross References
    Romans 5:8
    But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    Romans 5:10
    For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
    Hosea 13:9
    He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
    Ephesians 2:5
    Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved -
  4. Cross References
    Romans 4:25
    Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
  5. Cross References
    John 3:16
    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
  6. Cross References
    Romans 5:6
    For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
    Romans 5:10
    For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
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