But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God exhibits His love to us as certain and complete by sparing not His own Son for the ungodly. His love appears precisely in this: He was moved by no love in us, but of His own good will loved us first, and that while we were wholly vicious and given up to sin, not merely neutral but actively condemned.
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All our privileges flow from Christ's precious blood; His death for us is the spring-head of justification. He died for those without strength, entirely unable to help themselves, and worse still, for the ungodly, not merely helpless but guilty, deserving to perish, yet loved with a love that surpasses all human measure.
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Commenting on Romans 5:6-21
God has given clear evidence and full proof of His love by this circumstance alone: that while we were sinners, dead in sin, enslaved to it, the chief of sinners, Christ died for us. His love toward us is ancient, preceding our conversion, from everlasting, arising from His sovereign will and pleasure, not from any loveliness or love in us.
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