Romans 5:7
Good News Translation
It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.

Contemporary English Version
No one is really willing to die for an honest person, though someone might be willing to die for a truly good person.

New American Bible
Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

scarcely.

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

1 John 3:16 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

a good.

2 Samuel 18:27 And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me like the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is a good man: and cometh with good news.

Psalm 112:5 Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:

Acts 11:24 For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

some.

Romans 16:4 (Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles),

2 Samuel 18:3 And the people answered: Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not much mind us: or if half of us should fall, they will not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted for ten thousand: it is better therefore that thou shouldst be in the city to succour us.

2 Samuel 23:14-17 And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the Philistines then in Bethlehem. . . .

Context
Christ's Sacrifice for the Ungodly
6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly? 7For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die. 8But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

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

Romans 5:6
For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

Romans 5:6
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