The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:3
And this because of what God himself did for mankind in his own Son, Christ, who, in our very flesh, and in behalf of mankind, did what man himself was powerless to do—triumphed over sin and condemned it. read more
Romans 8:3 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do - The Law of God, the moral law. It could not free from sin and condemnation. This the apostle had fully shown in Romans 7:0.In that - Because.It was weak - It was feeble and inefficacious. It could not accomplish it.Through the flesh - In consequence of the strength of sin, and of the evil and corrupt desires of the unrenewed heart. The fault was not in the Law, which was good Romans 7:12, but it was owing to the strength of the natural passions and the sinfulness... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:3-4
Romans 8:3-4. For what the law could not do Το γαρ αδυνατον του νομου , what was impossible to the Mosaic law, whether moral or ceremonial; that is, that freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and from spiritual and eternal death, which it could not minister; in that it was weak through the flesh Through the depravity and infirmity of our fallen nature, which it was incapable of remedying or conquering. “The law was not weak or defective in itself. Its moral precepts were a perfect... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-17
Victory through the Spirit (8:1-17)The reason believers can have victory through Christ is that the power of the indwelling Spirit of Christ is greater than the power of the old sinful nature. The downward pull of the sinful nature may be likened to the downward pull of the earth’s gravity. A stone thrown into the air will fall to the ground, because it has no life or power to overcome the force of gravity. A bird thrown into the air will fly away, because it has a living power that enables it... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 8:3
what, &c . Literally the impossible thing of the law. weak = impotent. Greek. astheneo. through . App-104 .Romans 8:1 . God . App-98 . sending = having sent. App-174 . Compare John 17:3 . Son . App-108 . likeness . See Romans 1:23 ; Romans 6:5 . Not sinful flesh, for "in Him was no sin"; nor the likeness of flesh, because His was real flesh, but the likeness of sin 's flesh. sinful flesh = flesh of sin (Romans 8:3 ). condemned . App-122 . flesh. By "the perfect humanity and... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 8:3
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.The law of Moses could not make people perfect, due to the weakness of people themselves in being unable to live according to its tenets. There were also certain other limitations in that ancient divine law, there having been no provision for the impartation of God's Spirit to help people, and no absolute forgiveness, there having... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:3
Romans 8:3. For what the law could not do, &c.— For this the law not being able to effect, &c. The weakness, and as he there also calls it, the unprofitableness of the law, is again taken notice of by the Apostle, Hebrews 7:18-19. There were two defects in the law, whereby it became in this limited sense unprofitable, so as to make nothing perfect; (for it is profitable to drive us to Christ;) the one was its inflexible rigour, against which it provided no allay, or mitigation. It left... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:3
3, 4. For what the law could not do, c.—a difficult and much controverted verse. But it is clearly, we think, the law's inability to free us from the dominion of sin that the apostle has in view as has partly appeared already (see on :-), and will more fully appear presently. The law could irritate our sinful nature into more virulent action, as we have seen in :-, but it could not secure its own fulfilment. How that is accomplished comes now to be shown. in that it was weak through the... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 8:1-4
The statement of the believer’s condition 8:1-4 read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:3
For what the Law could not do (this is certainly what is meant by τὸ ἀδύνατον τοῦ νόμου ), in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. The Law could not deliver from the domination of sin; it was weak for such a purpose (cf. Hebrews 7:18 , Hebrews 7:19 ) but this not through any defect in itself but as having to work through our sinful flesh which refused obedience. And it was not... read more