Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
- KJV And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
- NKJV And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- NASB Now those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- NLT Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.
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Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Union with Christ means a decisive break with the old sinful nature.
Overview
Paul declares that believers, by virtue of their union with the crucified Christ, have put the flesh to death in principle. This crucifixion was settled at conversion, yet it is worked out daily as believers refuse the flesh's cravings. The verse grounds the call to holiness in the believer's identity in Christ's death and resurrection.
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Cross-references · 12
- Rom 6:6We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
- Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- Rom 8:13For 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.
- Gal 5:16–18So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Rom 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
- 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- Gal 6:14But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- 1 Cor 3:23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
- 2 Cor 10:7You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.
- Gal 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
- 1 Cor 15:23But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.
- Gal 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
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