Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. New Living Translation Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. English Standard Version So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. Berean Standard Bible Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. Berean Literal Bible So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh. King James Bible Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. New King James Version Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. New American Standard Bible So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— NASB 1995 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— NASB 1977 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— Legacy Standard Bible So then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— Amplified Bible So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]— Christian Standard Bible So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh, Holman Christian Standard Bible So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh, American Standard Version So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: Aramaic Bible in Plain English Now my brethren, we are indebted, not to the flesh that we should walk in the flesh, Contemporary English Version My dear friends, we must not live to satisfy our desires. Douay-Rheims Bible Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. English Revised Version So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: GOD'S WORD® Translation So, brothers and sisters, we have no obligation to live the way our corrupt nature wants us to live. Good News Translation So then, my friends, we have an obligation, but it is not to live as our human nature wants us to. International Standard Version Consequently, brothers, we are not—with respect to human nature, that is—under an obligation to live according to human nature. Literal Standard Version So, then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; Majority Standard Bible Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. New American Bible Consequently, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. NET Bible So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh New Revised Standard Version So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— New Heart English Bible So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. Weymouth New Testament Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule. World English Bible So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Young's Literal Translation So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Heirs with Christ11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. 12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13For 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.… Cross References Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. Romans 8:13 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. Treasury of Scripture Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. we are. Romans 6:2-15 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? … Psalm 116:16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? … Jump to Previous Debt Debtors Flesh Live Nature Natures Obligation Rule Sinful WayJump to Next Debt Debtors Flesh Live Nature Natures Obligation Rule Sinful WayRomans 8 1. Those who are in Christ are free from condemnation.5. What harm comes of the flesh; 13. and what good of the Spirit. 19. The glorious deliverance the creation longs for, 29. was beforehand decreed from God. 38. Nothing can sever us from his love. (12-17) These verses form a hortatory application of the foregoing, with further development of the idea to live after and in the Spirit. (12) We are debtors.--We are under an obligation. Observe that in the lively sequence of thought the second clause of the antithesis is suppressed, "We are under an obligation, not to the flesh (but to the Spirit)." Verses 12, 13. - So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh; for if ye live after the flesh, ye must (μέλλετε, expressing here a result that must; follow. The Authorized Version has "shall;' not distinguishing the force of the phrase from that of the simple future ζήσεσθε which follows), die; but if by the Spirit ye do mortify (rather, do to death, or make to die, so as to correspond to the die preceding) the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Here "the body" (τοῦ σώματος) must be taken in the same sense as in vers. 10, 11. True, the "deeds" spoken of are, in fact, those of the flesh; but the body is regarded as the organ of the lusts of the flesh, and it is fitly named here in connection with the thought of the preceding verses. The word translated. "deeds" is πράξεις, denoting, not single acts, but rather doings - the general outcome in action of fleshly lusts using the body as their organ. Μέλλετε ἀποθήσκειν and ζήσεσθε, viewed in connection with ζωοποιήσει in ver. 11, seem to point ultimately to the result hereafter of the two courses of life denoted: but not, it would seem, exclusively; for our future state is constantly regarded by the apostle as the continuance and sequence of what is begun in us already - whether of life in Christ now unto life eternal, or of death in sin now unto death beyond the grave. The general idea may be stated thus: If ye live after the flesh, the power in you to which you give your allegiance and adhesion will involve you in its own doom, death; but if ye live after the Spirit, you identify yourselves with the Spirit of life that is in you, whereby you will be emancipated at last even from these your mortal bodies, whose doings you already slay.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Therefore,Ἄρα (Ara) Conjunction Strong's 686: Then, therefore, since. Probably from airo; a particle denoting an inference more or less decisive. brothers, ἀδελφοί (adelphoi) Noun - Vocative Masculine Plural Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote. we have ἐσμέν (esmen) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. [an] obligation, ὀφειλέται (opheiletai) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3781: From opheilo; an ower, i.e. Person indebted; figuratively, a delinquent; morally, a transgressor. [but it is] not οὐ (ou) Adverb Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. to the τῇ (tē) Article - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. flesh, σαρκὶ (sarki) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred. to live ζῆν (zēn) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's 2198: To live, be alive. A primary verb; to live. according to κατὰ (kata) Preposition Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined). [it]. σάρκα (sarka) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred. Links Romans 8:12 NIVRomans 8:12 NLT Romans 8:12 ESV Romans 8:12 NASB Romans 8:12 KJV Romans 8:12 BibleApps.com Romans 8:12 Biblia Paralela Romans 8:12 Chinese Bible Romans 8:12 French Bible Romans 8:12 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Romans 8:12 So then brothers we are debtors not (Rom. Ro) |
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