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# For what the law was unable to do because it was weak through the flesh, God did
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"For the law did not have the power to stop us from sinning, because the power of sin within us was too strong. But God did stop us from sinning"
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# through the flesh
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"because of people's sinful nature"
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# He ... sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh ... an offering for sin ... he condemned sin
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The Son of God forever satisfied God's holy anger against our sin by giving his own body and human life as the eternal sacrifice for sin.
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# Son
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This refers to Jesus, the Son of God. It is best to translate “Son” with the same word that your language uses to refer to a human son.
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# in the likeness of sinful flesh
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"who looked like a sinful human being"
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# to be an offering for sin
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"so that he could die as a sacrifice for our sins"
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# he condemned sin in the flesh
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"in Christ's flesh God condemned sin" or "by Christ's death God broke the power of the sin"
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