"GOD commended HIS love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, [JESUS, the] Christ* died for us. 
Much more then, being now justified by HIS blood, we shall be saved from wrath through HIM." Romans 5:8-9

*footnote: the word "Christ" means 'anointed' from the orginal Greek word "kristos' ; the Messiah as foretold by
the Jewish /Hebrew prophets; a title bestowed by the ancient Greeks, not a name of JESUS.