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

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

For sin

For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

Condemned

Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

General references

Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after washing them with water,

And the priest will give the sin-offering, and take away the sin of him who is to be made clean from his unclean condition; and after that he will put the burned offering to death.

And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering.

For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.