Romans 8:3

What the law could not do because of human weakness, God did by sending His Son to deal with sin, condemning sin in His flesh. Christ's incarnation and atoning death accomplished what the law never could.

Cross-references · 25

• Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
• Gal 4:4–5But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Heb 7:18–19So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
• 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• Heb 10:14because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
• Rom 6:6We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
• 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
• 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
• Heb 10:1–10For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
• Gal 3:21Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
• Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
• Rom 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Heb 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Phil 2:7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
• Rom 9:3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
• Heb 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
• Rom 7:5–11For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• Heb 10:12But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 3:14–17Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
• Heb 2:17For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.
• John 9:24So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”
• Mark 15:27Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
• 1 Jn 4:10–14And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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