Romans 8:3

The Passion Translation

For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish, because the law was limited by the weakness of human nature. Yet God sent us his Son in human form to identify with human weakness. Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin.

Cross References

Mark 15:27

Two criminals were also crucified with Jesus, one on each side of him.

John 1:14

And so the Living Expression became a man and lived among us! We gazed upon his glory, the glory of the One and Only who came from the Father overflowing with tender mercy and truth!

John 9:24

So once again they summoned the man who was healed of blindness and said to him, “Swear to God to tell us the truth! We know the man who healed you is a sinful man! Do you agree?”

Acts 13:39

Everyone who believes in him is set free from sin and guilt—something the law of Moses had no power to do.

Romans 3:20

For by the merit of observing the law no one earns the status of being declared righteous before God, for it is the law that fully exposes and unmasks the reality of sin.

Romans 6:6

Could it be any clearer that our former identity is now and forever deprived of its power? For we were co-crucified with him to dismantle the stronghold of sin within us, so that we would not continue to live one moment longer submitted to sin’s power.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good lives within the flesh of my fallen humanity. The longings to do what is right are within me, but willpower is not enough to accomplish it.

Romans 8:32

For God has proved his love by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift of his Son. And since God freely offered him up as the sacrifice for us all, he certainly won’t withhold from us anything else he has to give.

Romans 9:3

For my grief is so intense that I wish that I would be accursed, cut off from the Messiah, if it would mean that you, my people, would come to faith in him! You are Israelites, my fellow citizens, and God’s chosen people. To you belong God’s glorious presence, the covenants, the Torah, the temple with its required sacrifices, and the promises of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.

Galatians 3:13

Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the curse of the law. He absorbed the curse completely as he became a curse in our place. For it is written: “Everyone who is hung upon a tree is cursed.”

Galatians 3:21

Since that’s true, should we consider the written law to be contrary to the promise of new life? How absurd! Truly, if there was a law that we could keep which would give us new life, then our salvation would have come by law-keeping.

Philippians 2:7

Instead he emptied himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant. He became human!

Hebrews 10:12

But when this Priest had offered the one supreme sacrifice for sin for all time he sat down on a throne at the right hand of God,

Hebrews 10:14

And by his one perfect sacrifice he made us perfectly holy and complete for all time!

Hebrews 2:14

Since all his “children” have flesh and blood, so Jesus became human to fully identify with us. He did this, so that he could experience death and annihilate the effects of the intimidating accuser who holds against us the power of death.

Hebrews 2:17

This is why he had to be a man and take hold of our humanity in every way. He made us his brothers and sisters and became our merciful and faithful King-Priest before God; as the One who removed our sins to make us one with him.

Hebrews 4:15

He understands humanity, for as a man, our magnificent King-Priest was tempted in every way just as we are, and conquered sin.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we would be dead to sin and live for righteousness. Our instant healing flowed from his wounding.