But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down--lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God."

For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;

and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong. This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.

Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,