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For the law[a] of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set you[b] free from the law of sin and death!

For God Did What The Law Could Not Do, For Those Walking In The Spirit

For the thing impossible[c] for the Law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. Having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for[d] sin, He condemned sin in the flesh[e], in order that the requirement[f] of the Law might be fulfilled in us, the ones walking not in-accordance-with[g] the flesh, but in accordance with the Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:2 That is, the controlling power, the operative power.
  2. Romans 8:2 This word is singular. Paul makes it personal.
  3. Romans 8:3 That is, to conquer the death-producing power of sin.
  4. Romans 8:3 Paul may mean as an offering for sin; or, to deal with sin in all its aspects.
  5. Romans 8:3 Or, in His flesh.
  6. Romans 8:4 This views the entire Law as a single requirement.
  7. Romans 8:4 Or, in harmony with, in conformity with.

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