King James Bible
"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:"
Paul identifies the law's limitation—not due to any defect in God's law itself, but because human sinful nature rendered people incapable of perfectly obeying it. The flesh's corruption made the law powerless to produce the righteousness it demanded. God intervened directly by sending Christ in genuine human form, yet without sin's corruption. The phrase emphasizes both Christ's full humanity and his unique sinlessness, making him the perfect representative to accomplish what fallen humanity could not. Through Christ's sacrificial death, God executed judgment on sin itself within the realm where it had reigned—human flesh. This legal condemnation breaks sin's dominion, achieving the law's righteous requirement through Christ rather than through human effort.