Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death.
Cross References
John 1:14And the WORD became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and of truth.
John 9:24Then, the second time, they called the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.
Romans 3:20Wherefore, by works of law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:
Romans 9:3for I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:2-10
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after… Read the whole commentary →