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Rom 8:3 — 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:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

For what		Rom 3:20; Rom 7:5-11; Act 13:39; Gal 3:21; Hbr 7:18,19; Hbr 10:1-10,14
God		Rom 8:32; Jhn 3:14-17; Gal 4:4,5; 1Jo 4:10-14
in the		Rom 9:3; Mar 15:27,28; Jhn 9:24
for sin		or, by a sacrifice for sin. 2Cr 5:21; Gal 3:13
condemned		Rom 6:6; 1Pe 2:24; 1Pe 4:1,2

Correlating Passages

For what

	Rom 3:20	Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.
	Rom 7:5	For 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.
	Rom 7:6	But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
	Rom 7:7	What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
	Rom 7:8	But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
	Rom 7:9	For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
	Rom 7:10	And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
	Rom 7:11	For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
	Act 13:39	And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
	Gal 3:21	[Is] 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.
	Hbr 7:18	For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
	Hbr 7:19	For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
	Hbr 10:1	For 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.
	Hbr 10:2	For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
	Hbr 10:3	But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year.
	Hbr 10:4	For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
	Hbr 10:5	Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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	Hbr 10:14	For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

God

	Rom 8:32	He 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?
	Jhn 3:14	And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
	Jhn 3:15	That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
	Jhn 3:16	For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
	Jhn 3:17	For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
	Gal 4:4	But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
	Gal 4:5	To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
	1Jo 4:10	Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
	1Jo 4:11	Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
	1Jo 4:12	No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
	1Jo 4:13	Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
	1Jo 4:14	And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.

in the

	Rom 9:3	For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
	Mar 15:27	And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
	Mar 15:28	And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
	Jhn 9:24	Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.

for sin

	2Cr 5:21	For 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 3:13	Christ 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:

condemned

	Rom 6:6	Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
	1Pe 2:24	Who 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.
	1Pe 4:1	Forasmuch 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;
	1Pe 4:2	That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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Scott, Thomas. "Romans 8:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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