Add parallel Print Page Options

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit[a] is life and peace.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 8.6 Or spirit

The mind governed by the flesh is death,(A) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life(B) and peace.

Read full chapter

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.(A)

Read full chapter

Whoever sows to please their flesh,(A) from the flesh will reap destruction;(B) whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.(C)

Read full chapter

For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,(A)

Read full chapter

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Read full chapter

13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.(A)

Read full chapter

13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die;(A) but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,(B) you will live.(C)

Read full chapter

14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.(A)

Read full chapter

14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ,(A) and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.[a](B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 13:14 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.(A)

Read full chapter

23 For the wages of sin is death,(A) but the gift of God is eternal life(B) in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:23 Or through

The Fruit of the Spirit

22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,(A)

Read full chapter

22 But the fruit(A) of the Spirit is love,(B) joy, peace,(C) forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Read full chapter

27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.(A)

Read full chapter

27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.(A) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled(B) and do not be afraid.

Read full chapter

14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.(A)

Read full chapter

14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(A) evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(B) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(C)

Read full chapter

21 So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.(A)

Read full chapter

21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!(A)

Read full chapter

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.(A)

Read full chapter

For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](A) the sinful passions aroused by the law(B) were at work in us,(C) so that we bore fruit for death.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.(A)

Read full chapter

Jesus answered, “I am(A) the way(B) and the truth(C) and the life.(D) No one comes to the Father except through me.(E)

Read full chapter

17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.(A)

Read full chapter

17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,(A) but of righteousness, peace(B) and joy in the Holy Spirit,(C)

Read full chapter