Romans 8:4
Romans chapter 8 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
KJV
King James Version · 1611That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Context
v.3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
v.4This passage
v.5For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Colossians 1:22
yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
- Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Revelation 14:5
And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.
- Hebrews 12:23
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
- Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
- Galatians 5:16
But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.