Romans 8:3
for what the Law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
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In Context
2for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and of death;
Cross References
Numbers 21:9And Moses makes a serpent of bronze, and sets it on the ensign, and it has been, if the serpent has bitten any man, and he has looked expectingly to the serpent of bronze—he has lived.
John 1:14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of [the] only begotten of [the] Father, full of grace and truth.
John 9:24They called, therefore, the man who was blind a second time, and they said to him, “Give glory to God, we have known that this Man is a sinner”;
Romans 3:20for this reason by works of law will no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, that [are] through the Law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to death;
Romans 9:3for I was wishing, I myself, to be accursed from the Christ—for my brothers, my relatives, 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 →