Romans 8:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation--but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

New Living Translation
Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.

English Standard Version
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

Berean Study Bible
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

New American Standard Bible
So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

NASB 1995
So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh--

NASB 1977
So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

Amplified Bible
So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]—

Christian Standard Bible
So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

Contemporary English Version
My dear friends, we must not live to satisfy our desires.

Good News Translation
So then, my friends, we have an obligation, but it is not to live as our human nature wants us to.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So, brothers and sisters, we have no obligation to live the way our corrupt nature wants us to live.

International Standard Version
Consequently, brothers, we are not—with respect to human nature, that is—under an obligation to live according to human nature.

NET Bible
So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

New King James Version
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

King James 2000 Bible
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

New Heart English Bible
So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

World English Bible
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

American King James Version
Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

American Standard Version
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

A Faithful Version
So then, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

Darby Bible Translation
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;

English Revised Version
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Therefore brethren, wee are detters not to the flesh, to liue after the flesh:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Therfore brethren, we are detters, not to the fleshe, to lyue after the fleshe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Therfore brethre we are now detters, not to the flesh,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Therfore brethren we are nowe detters not to the flesshe to live after the flesshe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
So, then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

Berean Literal Bible
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh.

Young's Literal Translation
So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

Smith's Literal Translation
Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

Literal Emphasis Translation
So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to flesh.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Now my brethren, we are indebted, not to the flesh that we should walk in the flesh,

Lamsa Bible
Therefore, my brethren, we are not indebted to the flesh to live after the flesh.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

Godbey New Testament
Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity.

Haweis New Testament
Truly then we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Mace New Testament
You are, therefore, brethren oblig'd to oppose your sensual passions;

Weymouth New Testament
Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule.

Worrell New Testament
Accordingly, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

Worsley New Testament
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
















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