Romans 8:3
For what the law was unable to do because it was weak through the flesh, God did. He sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be an offering for sin, and he condemned sin in the flesh.
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2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Cross References
Numbers 21:9So Moses made a bronze snake and attached it to a pole. When a snake bit any person, if he looked at the bronze snake, he survived.
John 1:14The Word became flesh and lived among us. We have seen his glory, glory as of the one and only who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 9:24So for a 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 3:20This is because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself would be cursed and set apart from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race 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 →