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.

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• Acts 13:39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Gal 4:4–5But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Heb 7:18–19For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
• 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
• Heb 10:14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
• Rom 6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1 Pet 4:1–2Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
• Heb 10:1–10For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Rom 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• Rom 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Heb 2:14Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
• Phil 2:7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
• Rom 9:3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
• Heb 4:15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
• Rom 7:5–11For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Heb 10:12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
• John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
• John 3:14–17And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
• Heb 2:17Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
• John 9:24Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
• Mark 15:27And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
• 1 Jn 4:10–14Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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