“That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. — Christ's death condemned ἐν τῇ σαρκί (en tē sarki, "in the flesh") the sin that ruled there; this κατάκριμα (katakrîma, "condemnation") of sin clears the believers. The δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου (dikaiōma tou nomou, "righteous requirement of the law") is fulfilled ἐν ἡμῖν (en hēmin, "in us") not by law-keeping but by the Spirit's transformative work. Flesh and Spirit are now the operative contrasts.
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