They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
Romans 8:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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]. American Standard Version (1901) that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Common English Bible 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. Catholic Public Domain Version so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. |
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,