Romans 8:3 Cross References
Romans 8:3
3: The law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Acts 13:39
- Everyone who believes in him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God--something the Jewish law could never do.
Hebrews 7:18
- Yes, the old requirement about the priesthood was set aside because it was weak and useless.
- For the law made nothing perfect, and now a better hope has taken its place. And that is how we draw near to God.
Hebrews 10:14
- For by that one offering he perfected forever all those whom he is making holy.
2 Corinthians 5:21
- For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Romans 6:6
- Our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
Galatians 4:4
- But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
- God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
Hebrews 10:1
- The old system in the law of Moses was only a shadow of the things to come, not the reality of the good things Christ has done for us. The sacrifices under the old system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.
- If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.
- But just the opposite happened. Those yearly sacrifices reminded them of their sins year after year.
- For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- That is why Christ, when he came into the world, said, "You did not want animal sacrifices and grain offerings. But you have given me a body so that I may obey you.
Galatians 3:21
- Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.
Galatians 3:13
- But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
Romans 3:20
- For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.
1 Peter 4:1
- So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too. For if you are willing to suffer for Christ, you have decided to stop sinning.
- And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
1 Peter 2:24
- He personally carried away our sins in his own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. You have been healed by his wounds!
Hebrews 2:14
- Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the Devil, who had the power of death.
Philippians 2:7
- He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form.
Romans 7:5
- When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced sinful deeds, resulting in death.
- But now we have been released from the law, for we died with Christ, and we are no longer captive to its power. Now we can really serve God, not in the old way by obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way, by the Spirit.
- Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
- But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
- I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
Hebrews 2:17
- Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to be in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. He then could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people.
John 1:14
- So the Word became human and lived here on earth among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father.
1 John 4:10
- This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
- Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
- No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.
- And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
- Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Hebrews 4:15
- This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same temptations we do, yet he did not sin.
Hebrews 10:12
- But our High Priest offered himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down at the place of highest honor at God's right hand.
Romans 8:32
- Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
John 3:14
- And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so I, the Son of Man, must be lifted up on a pole,
- so that everyone who believes in me will have eternal life.
- "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
- God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.
Romans 9:3
- for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed--cut off from Christ!--if that would save them.
John 9:24
- So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, "Give glory to God by telling the truth, because we know Jesus is a sinner."
Mark 15:27
- Two criminals were crucified with him, their crosses on either side of his.