Romans 8:13

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye thugh the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    for{G1063} if{G1487} ye live{G2198} after{G2596} the flesh,{G4561} ye must{G3195} die;{G599} but{G1161} if{G1487} by the Spirit{G4151} ye{G2289} put to death{G2289} the deeds{G4234} of the body,{G4983} ye shall live.{G2198}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For{G1063} if{G1487} ye live{G2198}{(G5719)} after{G2596} the flesh{G4561}, ye shall{G3195}{(G5719)} die{G599}{(G5721)}: but{G1161} if{G1487} ye{G2289} through the Spirit{G4151} do mortify{G2289}{(G5719)} the deeds{G4234} of the body{G4983}, ye shall live{G2198}{(G5695)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    For if ye live after the flesshe ye must dye. But yf ye mortifie the dedes of the body by the helpe of the sprite ye shall lyve.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    to lyue after the flesh: for yf ye lyue after ye fleshe, ye must dye: but yf ye mortyfye the dedes of the body thorow the sprete, ye shal lyue.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For if ye liue after ye fleshe, ye shall dye: But if ye through the spirite, do mortifie the deedes of the body, ye shall lyue.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For 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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For 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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 5:24 : 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 Rather, I discipline my body and bring it under control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
  • Rom 8:4-6 : 4 This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 The mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from fleshly desires, which wage war against the soul.
  • Col 3:5-8 : 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 7 You also once walked in these ways, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each person is tempted when they are drawn away and enticed by their own desire. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 You were taught to put off your former way of life, the old self, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Rom 8:1-2 : 1 So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Eph 5:3-5 : 3 But sexual immorality, all impurity, or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints. 4 Nor should there be filthiness, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For you know this with certainty, that no sexually immoral, impure, or greedy person—who is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled with the Spirit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 8:8-12
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    86%

    8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Him.

    10 But if Christ is in you, even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

    11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you.

    12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to it.

  • Rom 8:1-6
    6 verses
    83%

    1 So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

    3 For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.

    4 This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

    6 The mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.

  • Gal 5:16-18
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    80%

    16 I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want to do.

    18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 6:10-13
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    10 For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

    11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

    13 Do not present the parts of your body as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

  • Gal 6:8
    78%

    8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Gal 5:24-25
    2 verses
    78%

    24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

  • Rom 7:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  • Rom 6:5-8
    4 verses
    76%

    5 For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in the resurrection.

    6 We know this: our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, and we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

    7 For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

    8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

  • Rom 8:14
    75%

    14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    75%

    10 We always carry in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body.

    11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal bodies.

    12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body on our behalf, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body has ceased from sin.

    2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • Eph 2:1
    73%

    1 And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

  • Rom 6:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21 But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

    22 But now, having been freed from sin and bound to God, you have your fruit, which leads to sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life.

    23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Col 2:20
    73%

    20 If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • Gal 2:19
    73%

    19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

  • Rom 14:8
    73%

    8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

  • John 6:63
    72%

    63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are Spirit and they are life.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    71%

    6 For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they may be judged according to human standards in the body but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Col 3:5
    71%

    5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

  • Rom 6:19
    71%

    19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

  • Rom 6:16
    71%

    16 Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

  • Col 3:3
    71%

    3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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