Jesus. Instead of condemning us, God condemned sin so that “the righteous commandments of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.” This is the argument of verses 1–4. But we have not only received deliverance from the law’s condemnation as a result of God’s saving favor to us through Jesus Christ. We have also been delivered from ourselves, that is, from our sinful natures. The first deliverance