Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

New American Standard Bible

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

King James Version

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

International Standard Version

Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.

A Conservative Version

And those who are in flesh cannot please God.

American Standard Version

and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Amplified

and those who are in the flesh [living a life that caters to sinful appetites and impulses] cannot please God.

An Understandable Version

And those people who are living according to the flesh cannot please God.

Anderson New Testament

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

Bible in Basic English

So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

Common New Testament

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you,

Darby Translation

and they that are in flesh cannot please God.

Godbey New Testament

But those being in depravity are not able to please God.

Goodspeed New Testament

Those who are physical cannot please God.

John Wesley New Testament

So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Julia Smith Translation

And they being in the flesh cannot please God.

King James 2000

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

Modern King James verseion

So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

So then, they that are given to the flesh, cannot please God.

Moffatt New Testament

Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.

Montgomery New Testament

And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

NET Bible

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

New Heart English Bible

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Noyes New Testament

And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Sawyer New Testament

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

The Emphasized Bible

They, moreover, who in flesh have their being, cannot please, God.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

They who are earthly cannot please God.

Webster

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Weymouth New Testament

And those whose hearts are absorbed in earthly things cannot please God.

Williams New Testament

The people who live on the plane of the lower nature cannot please God.

World English Bible

Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Worrell New Testament

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Worsley New Testament

and they who are carnal, cannot please God.

Youngs Literal Translation

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So then
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the flesh
σάρξ 
Sarx 
Usage: 130

δύναμαι 
Dunamai 
can , cannot , be able, may , able,
Usage: 140

ἀρέσκω 
Aresko 
Usage: 17

Context Readings

Set Free From The Law Of Sin And Death

7 For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.


Cross References

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

Matthew 3:17

And there came a voice from heaven:

This is My beloved Son.
I take delight in Him!

John 3:3

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:5-6

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John 8:29

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

Romans 8:9

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

1 Corinthians 7:32

I want you to be without concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.

Philippians 4:18

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing—do so even more.

Hebrews 11:5-6

By faith Enoch was taken away so he did not experience death, and he was not to be found because God took him away. For prior to his removal he was approved, since he had pleased God.

Hebrews 13:16

Don’t neglect to do what is good and to share, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 3:22

and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

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