Jesus destroys the devil

PASSAGE	SUBJECT	ACTION	OBJECT	LOCATION
1. Rom 8:3	God (Christ)	Condemned	Sin	In the BODY, or in the flesh, of Christ.
2. Heb 2:14	Christ	Destroyed	Devil (power of death: cp Rom 6:23; Jam 1:13-15).	Flesh and blood (HUMANITY).
3. Heb 9:26	Christ	Do away with	Sin	By the sacrifice of HIMSELF.
4. 1Jo 3:5,8; 4:2	Son of God	Take away or destroy	Our sins, or the works of the devil	“Appeared”: where? In the FLESH (1Jo 4:2).

Or, put another way…

1. Christ was made flesh in order to destroy the devil — ie, sin in the flesh: Heb 2:14; 9:26; Rom 8:3.
2. Sin is that which has the power of death, and sin comes from within: Rom 6:23; 7:13,20; 1Co 15:56.
3. The relationship of flesh and blood, sin, and the devil: Heb 2:14 (Christ partook of flesh and blood, in order that through his death, he might destroy the devil); Rom 8:3 (Christ was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, and died as an offering for sin, and so condemned sin in the flesh); Eph 2:15,16 (Christ, in his flesh, reconciled us by his death on the cross, and so slew the enmity which is in our flesh).