But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Parallel translations
- KJV But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- BSB Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- ESV But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
- NKJV But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
- NASB But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
- NLT Instead, clothe yourself with the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And don’t let yourself think about ways to indulge your evil desires.
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- Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
- Gal 5:16–17But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- Gal 3:27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
- 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Col 3:10–12and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- Rom 8:12–13So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
- 1 Jn 2:15–17Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- Col 3:5–8Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
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