John 6:63
Modern Translations
New International Version
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you--they are full of the Spirit and life.

New Living Translation
The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

English Standard Version
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Berean Study Bible
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

New American Standard Bible
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh provides no benefit; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.

NASB 1995
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

NASB 1977
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Amplified Bible
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh conveys no benefit [it is of no account]. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life [providing eternal life].

Christian Standard Bible
The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn't help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Contemporary English Version
The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from that life-giving Spirit.

Good News Translation
What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Life is spiritual. Your physical existence doesn't contribute to that life. The words that I have spoken to you are spiritual. They are life.

International Standard Version
It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

NET Bible
The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

New King James Version
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

King James 2000 Bible
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

New Heart English Bible
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

World English Bible
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

American King James Version
It is the spirit that vivifies; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

American Standard Version
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

A Faithful Version
It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.

Darby Bible Translation
It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

English Revised Version
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is the spirit that reviveth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
It is the spirite that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the woordes that I speake vnto you, are spirite and life.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
It is the spirite that quickeneth, the fleshe profiteth nothyng. The wordes that I speake vnto you, are spirite and lyfe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
It is ye sprete that quyckeneth, ye flesh profiteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake, are sprete, and are life.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
It is the sprete that quyckeneth the flesshe proffeteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake vnto you are sprete and lyfe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
It is the Spirit that is giving life; the flesh does not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

Berean Literal Bible
It is the Spirit giving life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.

Young's Literal Translation
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

Smith's Literal Translation
It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Literal Emphasis Translation
It is the Spirit giving life; the flesh benefits nothing. The sayings that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

Catholic Public Domain Version
It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh does not offer anything of benefit. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“The Spirit is The Life Giver; the body does not benefit anything. The words that I speak with you are spirit and life.”

Lamsa Bible
It is the spirit that gives life; the body is of no account; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.

Godbey New Testament
The Spirit is the One who creates life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and life.

Haweis New Testament
The Spirit is the life-giving power; the flesh contributeth nothing: the declarations which I make to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Mace New Testament
it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.

Weymouth New Testament
It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.

Worrell New Testament
It is the Spirit That giveth life; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.

Worsley New Testament
The spirit is the principle of life, the flesh availeth nothing: now the words that I speak unto you are spirit, and therefore life.
















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