Romans 8:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

For what

For sin

2 Corinthians 5:21

Galatians 3:13

Condemned

Romans 6:6

1 Peter 2:24

1 Peter 4:1

General references

Bible References

For what

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

For when we were in the flesh,

the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us

and bore fruit for death.

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.

So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

For sin

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

Condemned

For we know that our old self

was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

He Himself bore our sins
in His body on the tree,
so that, having died to sins,
we might live for righteousness;
you have been healed by His wounds.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

General references

“Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

The priest must sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he will slaughter the burnt offering.

He is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.