Romans 8:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.

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.

Common English Bible

If you live on the basis of selfishness, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the actions of the body, you will live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

Romans 8:13 Cross References

Job 20:13

though they are loath to let it go and hold it in their mouths,

Romans 6:21

So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

Romans 6:23

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

Romans 7:5

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:12

So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

Galatians 5:24

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

Galatians 6:8

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Titus 2:12

training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.