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 is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

For sin

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

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

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,

General references

"You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

"The priest must then perform the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his impurity. After that he is to slaughter the burnt offering,

He must also take two male goats from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.