To understand Romans 8.4 properly and in context you need to apply Verse 3 to it.
Romans 8.4 says:
[SUP]4 [/SUP]That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8.3 says:
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For 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:
In Vs. 3 Paul is telling us the law could not make us righteous and that it makes us SIN. But God sent Jesus to be like us, and be the sacrifice for us, the thought continues and is not a new thought in Vs.4 in that verse Paul is continuing his thought in Vs.3 and Vs.4 tells us that he did this so that we could be made righteous unto himself, so that we would no longer walk according to the flesh/senses/law and walk by the Spirit.
Stay out of the ditch called pretext and stick to proper context at all times....you took Vs4. as a stand alone thought, when it actually is a finished thought from the end of Romans 7.
Chapter and verses are not linear, they were added much later. The fact is that Romans 7-8 is one long chapter...not independent chapters with new topics. It is written just like Matt 5-7 and John 9-10. they are continuous in nature and should not be read in linear fashion or interpreted as separate topics.
Romans 8.4 says:
[SUP]4 [/SUP]That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8.3 says:
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For 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:
In Vs. 3 Paul is telling us the law could not make us righteous and that it makes us SIN. But God sent Jesus to be like us, and be the sacrifice for us, the thought continues and is not a new thought in Vs.4 in that verse Paul is continuing his thought in Vs.3 and Vs.4 tells us that he did this so that we could be made righteous unto himself, so that we would no longer walk according to the flesh/senses/law and walk by the Spirit.
Stay out of the ditch called pretext and stick to proper context at all times....you took Vs4. as a stand alone thought, when it actually is a finished thought from the end of Romans 7.
Chapter and verses are not linear, they were added much later. The fact is that Romans 7-8 is one long chapter...not independent chapters with new topics. It is written just like Matt 5-7 and John 9-10. they are continuous in nature and should not be read in linear fashion or interpreted as separate topics.