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Romans 8:3 Cross-References
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“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 sin: or, by a sacrifice for sin”
Romans 8:3 (KJV)
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For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh—The law's inability (to adunaton tou nomou) was not intrinsic defect but human incapacity. Astheneō ("weak") describes the flesh's moral impotence, not the law's inadequacy. God's solution: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (en homoiōmati sarkos hamartias). The phrase is carefully calibrated—Christ assumed genuine humanity (homoiōma means "likeness/form") without sin's contamination. He entered fully into our condition while remaining the sinless Son.And for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (peri hamartias ka...
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“from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.”
“God sent out his Son”
“For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.”
“For he hath made him to be sin for us”
“having become a curse for us. For it is written”
“For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”
“that we”
“that our old man was crucified with him”
“arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;”
“most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.”