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Romans 8:3

Romans 8:3 "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh." It is easy to read the Bible and understand the jist of it but fail to understand the actual wording. From reading Romans 8:3 we know that the Lord Jesus came to do something which the law could never do; and that we have salvation in the Lord Jesus which we did not have through the Old Testament law. But we may be able to grasp that still without understand the actual wording of Romans 8:3. By understanding the syntax we are able to receive a greater revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ and God's Word. The verse can be broken down into two parts: "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh...": Q: What does this phrase mean?  A: On the face of it this verse seems to suggest that the law (the law being the ten commandments given to us