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Walking by the Spirit

Romans 8:2

In 9 translations

BSB
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.BYZ and TR me
KJV
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
WEB
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
ASV
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
LSV
for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and of death;
YLT
for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;
DBY
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
DRC
For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.
GNV
For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.

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  • NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort read σε (“you”); Tyndale House, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read με (“me”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: σε. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read σε; Tregelles, the Greek text behind the NIV, Robinson–Pierpont read με.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὁ γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠλευθέρωσέν σε ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου.
RP2018
Ὁ γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠλευθέρωσέν με ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου.
TR-Boyd
Ὁ γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠλευθέρωσέ με ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου.
SCR1894
ο γαρ νομος του πνευματος της ζωης εν χριστω ιησου ηλευθερωσεν με απο του νομου της αμαρτιας και του θανατου

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  • Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
  • Romans 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  • Romans 8:10–11But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from…
  • 1 Corinthians 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
  • John 8:36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
  • John 8:32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
  • Romans 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
  • Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
  • John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
  • John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
  • John 7:38–39Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not…
  • John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • Galatians 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
  • Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

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