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Romans 8:3

Weymouth NT

For what was impossible to the Law –powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity– God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;

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And together with Jesus they crucified two robbers, one at His right hand and one at His left.

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory–the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, »Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner.«

and in Him every believer is absolved from all offences, from which you could not be absolved under the Law of Moses.«

For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure knowledge of sin.

This we know–that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

For I could pray to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, my human kinsfolk–for such the Israelites are.

He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.

Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us–because »Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree.«

God, however, is only one. Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? No, indeed; for if a Law had been given which could have conferred Life, righteousness would certainly have come by the Law.

Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand,

For by a single offering He has for ever completed the blessing for those whom He is setting free from sin.

Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,

And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.




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