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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. Nobody would feel impelled to die for a man who is only severely and strictly just, he may command our admiration, but not our affection. Aristides the Just is, indeed, at last banished; men cannot bear a man whose whole character is bare...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: However upright and just a man may be, nobody thinks of dying for him. Rom_5:7. Yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. That is to say, for a generous, kind, noble-hearted man, some might dare to die.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: Though he were as just as Aristides, though be were renowned for justice, nobody would die for him. There is no such attraction in the virtue as would win anyone’s love, so as to die for the man who displays it. Rom_5:7. Yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. For a benevolent,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: For a man who is perfectly just, — there are few who would be willing to die for him. Rom_5:7. Yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. For a generous, noble-hearted man, some might be willing to die; yet there is a peradventure even about that.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely- Now the apostle goes away from his theme, carried away by the still greater subject of the love of God in Christ Jesus, and the way of reconciliation by Christ, he goes on to that theme: “For scarcely” — Rom_5:7. For a righteous man will one die:- However “just” Aristides might be, nobody would die for him. However “righteous” a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for scarcely for a righteous man will one die: He is very righteous, but he is very stern; nobody cares much about him. Rom_5:7. Yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. He is “a good man “ — benevolent, kind, and tender.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. What an argument this is for the final safety of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: For a merely just man, scarcely would anybody die. Rom_5:7. Yet peradventure for a good man— For a benevolent man—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, It is under that aspect that Christ is to be regarded as dying for the ungodly, dying for sinners. Ungodly man, guilty sinner, is there not hope for you in this blessed truth? Does anyone say, “I shall be lost, for I am...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But God commendeth his love towards us,.... That is, he hath manifested it, which was before hid in his heart; he has given clear evidence of it, a full proof and demonstration of it; he has so confirmed it by this instance, that there is no room nor reason to doubt of it; he has illustrated and set it off with the greater lustre by this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Certainly we were not “good” men, we were not even “just” men, but we are included in this black description “sinners”; and “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” He died for us as sinners, he did not come to save saints, but to save sinners;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He did the utmost for us when we were the least deserving of it. Oh, what a love is this. Let it be shed abroad in our poor stony hearts, and commended by us to others.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We were neither righteous nor yet good, yet Christ died for us. “Oh!” said a little boy once to his mother, “I do not think so much of Christ dying for men, I think I would be willing to die if I could save a hundred men by dying.” But his mother said,”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We were without any attraction, without any righteousness, without any goodness, yet Christ loved us. Out of the graciousness of his own heart he loved us, according to that text, “I will love them freely.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. When we were not righteous, when we certainly were not good, when the whole description of our character could be summed up in that one word “sinners” — rebels offending against God: “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. When we were not even just, much less good, “Christ died for us.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. While we were neither righteous nor good, “while we were yet sinners, Christ” did the most he ever could, or ever can do for us, he “died for us.” this is the best gift for the worst of men, and that best gift given to them when they are at their worst...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Much more then being now justified by his blood,.... The apostle here argues from justification by Christ to salvation by him, there being a certain and inseparable connection between these two; whoever is justified shall be saved; and speaks of justification "as being now by his blood". Justification in God's mind from eternity proceeded upon the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. You see the force of the argument. If he loved us when we were still dead in sin, much more will he keep us and preserve us now that he hath justified us. Were his enemies redeemed? Shall not his friends be kept? Did he love those who were still far off?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Much more than, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. This is a fine piece of argument, and strictly logical. If, when we were sinners, Christ died for us, will he let us be condemned now that he has washed us in his precious blood? Is it possible that, after dying for us, he will let us fall from grace, and...