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

For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure knowledge of sin.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

and in Him every believer is absolved from all offences, from which you could not be absolved under the Law of Moses.

God, however, is only one. Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? No, indeed; for if a Law had been given which could have conferred Life, righteousness would certainly have come by the Law.

On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--

For, since the Law exhibits only an outline of the blessings to come and not a perfect representation of the things themselves, the priests can never, by repeating the same sacrifices which they continually offer year after year, give complete freedom from sin to those who draw near.

For sin

He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.

Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us--because "Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree."

Condemned

This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same--because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin--

General references

For we maintain that it is as the result of faith that a man is held to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law.