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For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)[a] But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 5:7 sn Verse 7 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.

You see, at just the right time,(A) when we were still powerless,(B) Christ died for the ungodly.(C) Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.(D)

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