But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God showed His love in this unusual and remarkable manner: He gave Christ to die in our stead, saving us from dying eternally in hell. His love surpasses all that has ever been manifested among men, displayed while we were sinners and His enemies.
AI summary
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.
AI summary
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (h) He commends his love toward us, so that in the midst of our afflictions we may know assuredly that he will be present with us. (i) While sin reigned in us.