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

Romans 3:28

Bible References

For what

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;

and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;

For there is an abrogation of the commandment which goes before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness;

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

For sin

For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree,

Condemned

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

General references

We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.