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Romans 8:3

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3For what the law could not doap since it was weakened by the flesh,aq God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful fleshar as a sin offering,Ias

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Footnotes

  1. IOr for sin

Cross references

  1. apAc 13:39; Heb 10:1–2
  2. aqRm 7:18; Heb 7:18
  3. arPhp 2:7; Heb 2:14,17; 4:15
  4. asLv 5:6–7,11; 14:31; Is 53:10

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

NLTNew Living Translation

The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

KJV 1900King James Version

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: