3For 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:
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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. …
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, …
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)I. The apostle here beings with one signal privilege of true Christians, and describes the character of those to whom it belongs: There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus , Rom. 8:1. This is his triumph after that melancholy complaint and conflict in the foregoing chapter—sin remaining, disturbing, vexing, but, blessed be God, not ruining. The complaint he takes to…
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