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 by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

by this one everyone who believes is justified!

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

For on the one hand a preceding commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good [things] that are about to come, not the form of things itself, [is] never able {year by year} by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

For sin

He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"

Condemned

knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.

Therefore, [because] Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

General references

And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of assembly, and you will wash them with the water.

Thus the priest shall {sacrifice} the sin offering, and he shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering.

And he must take from the {Israelites}' community two he-goats as a sin offering and one ram as a burnt offering.

For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.