Romans 8:4 - Forerunner Commentary

Romans 8:4

2 For ^athe law of ^bthe Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from ^cthe law of sin and death.

3 For ^awhat the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, ^bGod did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ^ado not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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

6 For ^ato be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7 Because ^athe carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, ^bnor indeed can be.

8 So then, 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 dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

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American Standard Version
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Amplified® Bible
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].

Contemporary English Version
He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.

Darby English Version
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.

Good News Bible
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.

International Standard Version
so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

King James Version
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

New American Standard Bible
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.

New International Version
in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

New King James Version
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.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
so that the requirement of the Law might receive fulfillment in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Young's Literal Translation
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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