Although you may condemn yourself for your failures, Jesus never will. You may even try to make up for your sins, but you can’t—and you don’t have to. [If] you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 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