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Romans 5:8

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Romans 5:8 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 13 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 15:13 (180 votes) and John 3:16 (160 votes). 52 other verses point back to it. It links with 23 other books, from Genesis 22 to 1 John 4.

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Which verses does Romans 5:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 15:13180 votes

    Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

  2. John 3:16160 votes

    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

  3. Romans 5:6137 votes

    For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

  4. 1 Peter 3:18125 votes

    For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

  5. 1 John 4:9–1097 votes

    This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  6. 1 John 3:1696 votes

    By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

  7. Isaiah 53:687 votes

    We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

  8. Ephesians 2:761 votes

    in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  9. Romans 4:2557 votes

    He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

  10. Ephesians 1:6–847 votes

    to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace …

  11. Romans 5:2039 votes

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  12. 1 Timothy 1:1637 votes
  13. Romans 3:519 votes

Which verses point to Romans 5:8?

The 10 strongest of 52.