Peace with God Through Faith
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. Rom 5:7
dare to die... We have many examples of people dying for friends, lovers, and great men, but it is contrary to nature to die for enemies. Yet God did (Rom. 5:6-8; John 3:16).
This is just saying that it would have been a little more understandable that Jesus would die on the cross for us, if we had been good people.
As uncommon as such a sacrifice is, Paul’s point is that we were neither righteous or good yet Christ sacrificed Himself for us. There are no good people.
Matthew 19:17 “And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”
A death of this cruel nature would be hard to endure, even for righteous people, but for wicked people it is almost not understandable. The reason we do not understand is because God’s love is so much greater than any thing we know about.
A person willing to die for a righteous man or for a good man obviously is offering himself as a substitute so that the righteous or good man can continue to live. This is the highest expression of human love and devotion.
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