Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.
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.
- BSB Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- 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.
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Quick answer
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 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
- Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Gal 5:16–18But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- Rom 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Gal 6:14But far be it from me to 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 are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
- 2 Cor 10:7Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also we are Christ’s.
- Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
- 1 Cor 15:23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
- Gal 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
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