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 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Gal 4:4–5But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Heb 7:18–19For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
• 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made 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, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
• Heb 10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
• Rom 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• Heb 10:1–10For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
• Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• Rom 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Heb 2:14Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Phil 2:7but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
• Rom 9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
• Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
• Rom 7:5–11For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• Heb 10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
• John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 3:14–17As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
• Heb 2:17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
• John 9:24So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
• Mark 15:27With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
• 1 Jn 4:10–14In this is love, 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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