Romans 5:7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

English Standard Version
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—

New American Standard Bible
For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.

King James Bible
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For rarely will someone die for a just person--though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

International Standard Version
For it is rare for anyone to die for a righteous person, though somebody might be brave enough to die for a good person.

American Standard Version
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

Darby Bible Translation
For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

Young's Literal Translation
for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

Cross References

Matthew 13:15
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:8
But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:6-11 Christ died for sinners; not only such as were useless, but such as were guilty and hateful; such that their everlasting destruction would be to the glory of God's justice. Christ died to save us, not in our sins, but from our sins; and we were yet sinners when he died for us. Nay, the carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself, chap. 8:7; Col 1:21. But God designed to deliver from sin, and to work a great change. While the sinful state continues, God loathes the sinner, and the sinner loathes God, Zec 11:8. And that for such as these Christ should die, is a mystery; no other such an instance of love is known, so that it may well be the employment of eternity to adore and wonder at it. Again; what idea had the apostle when he supposed the case of some one dying for a righteous man? And yet he only put it as a thing that might be. Was it not the undergoing this suffering, that the person intended to be benefitted might be released therefrom? But from what are believers in Christ released by his death? Not from bodily death; for that they all do and must endure. The evil, from which the deliverance could be effected only in this astonishing manner, must be more dreadful than natural death. There is no evil, to which the argument can be applied, except that which the apostle actually affirms, sin, and wrath, the punishment of sin, determined by the unerring justice of God. And if, by Divine grace, they were thus brought to repent, and to believe in Christ, and thus were justified by the price of his bloodshedding, and by faith in that atonement, much more through Him who died for them and rose again, would they be kept from falling under the power of sin and Satan, or departing finally from him. The living Lord of all, will complete the purpose of his dying love, by saving all true believers to the uttermost. Having such a pledge of salvation in the love of God through Christ, the apostle declared that believers not only rejoiced in the hope of heaven, and even in their tribulations for Christ's sake, but they gloried in God also, as their unchangeable Friend and all-sufficient Portion, through Christ only.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. For scarcely for a righteous man—a man of simply unexceptionable character.

will one—"any one"

die: yet peradventure for a good man—a man who, besides being unexceptionable, is distinguished for goodness, a benefactor to society.

some—"some one."

would—rather, "doth."

even dare to die—"Scarce an instance occurs of self-sacrifice for one merely upright; though for one who makes himself a blessing to society there may be found an example of such noble surrender of life" (So Bengel, Olshausen, Tholuck, Alford, Philippi). (To make the "righteous" and the "good" man here to mean the same person, and the whole sense to be that "though rare, the case may occur, of one making a sacrifice of life for a worthy character" [as Calvin, Beza, Fritzsche, Jowett], is extremely flat.)