Romans 8:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

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  • Acts 13:39 : 39 and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness, 19 (for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.
  • Heb 10:14 : 14 for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 1 For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, 2 since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified? 3 but in those `sacrifices' is a remembrance of sins every year, 4 for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, 6 in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, 7 then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' 8 saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered -- 9 then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; 10 in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
  • Phil 2:7 : 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but `one' tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;
  • John 3:14-17 : 14 `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up, 15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, 16 for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. 17 For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
  • John 9:24 : 24 They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'
  • Heb 10:12 : 12 And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, 5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 this knowing, that our old man was crucified with `him', that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
  • Rom 7:5-9 : 5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death; 6 and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter. 7 What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: 8 `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead. 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; 10 and the command that `is' for life, this was found by me for death; 11 for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay `me';
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
  • 1 Pet 4:1-2 : 1 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
  • 1 John 4:10-14 : 10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; 12 God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us; 13 in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us. 14 And we -- we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son -- Saviour of the world;
  • Mark 15:27 : 27 And with him they crucify two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on his left,

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