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Romans 8:4
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KJ21
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
ASV
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
AMP
so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power].
AMPC
So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].
BRG
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
CSB
in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
CSBA
in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
CEB
He did this so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us. Now the way we live is based on the Spirit, not based on selfishness.
CJB
so that the just requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us who do not run our lives according to what our old nature wants but according to what the Spirit wants.
CEV
He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.
DARBY
in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.
DLNT
in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, the ones walking not in-accordance-with the flesh, but in accordance with the Spirit.
DRA
That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
ERV
He did this so that we could be right just as the law said we must be. Now we don’t live following our sinful selves. We live following the Spirit.
EASY
God did this so that we could become right with him. God's Law showed us how to be right with him. And now we can be right with God, if we live with God's Spirit as our guide. We do not do what our weak human thoughts want us to do.
EHV
so that the righteous decree of the law would be fully satisfied in us who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
ESV
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
ESVUK
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
EXB
He did this so that ·we could be the kind of people that the law demands that we be [L the law’s righteous/just requirements would be fulfilled in us]. Now we do not ·live [walk; C life’s journey] following our ·sinful selves [sinful nature; T flesh], but following the Spirit.
GNV
That that righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, which walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
GW
Therefore, we, who do not live by our corrupt nature but by our spiritual nature, are able to meet God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings.
GNT
God did this so that the righteous demands of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.
HCSB
in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
ICB
He did this so that we could be right as the law said we must be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.
ISV
so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to human nature but according to the Spirit.
PHILLIPS
The Law never succeeded in producing righteousness—the failure was always the weakness of human nature. But God has met this by sending his own Son Jesus Christ to live in that human nature which causes the trouble. And, while Christ was actually taking upon himself the sins of men, God condemned that sinful nature. So that we are able to meet the Law’s requirements, so long as we are living no longer by the dictates of our sinful nature, but in obedience to the promptings of the Spirit.
JUB
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
KJV
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
AKJV
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
LSB
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.
LEB
in order that the requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
TLB
So now we can obey God’s laws if we follow after the Holy Spirit and no longer obey the old evil nature within us.
MSG
God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
MEV
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
MOUNCE
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.
NOG
Therefore, we, who do not live by our corrupt nature but by our spiritual nature, are able to meet God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings.
NABRE
so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.
NASB
so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NASB1995
so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NCB
so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fulfilled in us who live not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NCV
He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.
NET
so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NIRV
Jesus does for us everything the holy law requires. The power of sin should no longer control the way we live. The Holy Spirit should control the way we live.
NIV
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NIVUK
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NKJV
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.
NLV
In that way, Jesus did for us what the Law said had to be done. We do not do what our sinful old selves tell us to do anymore. Now we do what the Holy Spirit wants us to do.
NLT
He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
NMB
so that the righteousness required by the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
NRSVA
so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NRSVACE
so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NRSVCE
so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NRSVUE
so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
NTFE
This was in order that the right and proper verdict of the law could be fulfilled in us, as we live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.
OJB
In order that the maleh chukat haTorah (the full statute requirement of the Torah, see VAYIKRA 18:5) might be fulfilled in us whose halakhah is in the Derech [HaChayyim] (the Way of Life) according to the Ruach Hakodesh and not in accordance with the basar.
RGT
that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us; who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
RSV
in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
RSVCE
in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
TLV
so that the requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Ruach.
VOICE
Now we are able to live up to the justice demanded by the law. But that ability has not come from living by our fallen human nature; it has come because we walk according to the movement of the Spirit in our lives.
WEB
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
WE
He did this so that we might be good people as the law said we should be. We are good people if we live the way the Spirit wants us to live, not the way our bodies want to live.
WYC
that the justifying of the law were fulfilled in us, that go not after the flesh [that not after the flesh we wander], but after the Spirit.
YLT
that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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