So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
- BSB Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
- NKJV Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
- NASB So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
- NLT Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.
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Cross-references · 4
- Rom 6:2–15May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
- 1 Pet 4:2–3that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
- 1 Cor 6:19–20Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
- Ps 116:16Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.
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