JMNT(i)
3 You see, [because of] the powerlessness and inability of the Law (from the written code; = associated with Torah) –
within which it kept on making [folks] weak and feeble ([note: the active voice]; but as an intransitive: in which [incapability] it was constantly falling sick and continued being without strength)
through the flesh (= the alienated self oriented toward the System; or: = Torah culture and cultus, with boundary-marker observances) –
in sending His own Son (or: by sending the Son, Who is Himself)
within a result of a likeness of flesh that is connected with sin (or: in an effect of being made similar to sin’s flesh; = in union with a result from being made like the alienated existence that is marked by failure),
and concerning sin (or: encircling failure and error; to address a missed target; surrounding deviation; [note: or, as a technical term for the sin offering: = to be the sin-offering; see:
Lev. 4:32; 5:6-9;
2 Chron. 29:24;
Ps. 40:6; Ezk. 42:13, LXX]),
God gives a commensurate decision from a corresponding negative evaluation which falls in line with and follows the pattern which divides down (or: condemned; gives a down-oriented verdict; passed down a sentence on and gave judgment against)
the Sin within the flesh [system] (or: the failure, the error, the miss of the target and the deviation [which is] in union with the human condition; or: = the mistake of the estranged, System-dominated self),
4 to the end that the effects of the fair and equitable Deed in which wrong was set right, resulting from being turned in the right direction within the Way pointed out, which is the principle, (or: so that the effect of the right relationships which come from [His] law and custom; or: in order that the result of the equity of the Law)
may be fulfilled and become full within us – in those habitually walking about (or: = for the folks ordering their behavior and living their lives)
not in accord with flesh (or: = not corresponding to the human condition; or: = on the level of Torah-keeping boundary-markers),
but rather in accord with spirit (or: down from [the] Spirit; corresponding to [His] Attitude; on the level of and in the sphere of Breath-effect).