Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
New American Standard Bible
and those who are
King James Version
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Holman Bible
Those who are in the flesh
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.
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.
Themes
Flesh » Those that walk after the flesh
The flesh » General references to man's carnal nature
Man » Of Christ » Natural, the
New Birth » The corruption of human nature requires
Topics
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 8:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Set Free From The Law Of Sin And Death
7 because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so], 8 and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.
Cross References
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.
Matthew 3:17
And behold, [there was] a voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."
John 3:5-6
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.
John 8:29
And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.
1 Corinthians 7:32
But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
Philippians 4:18
But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
Colossians 1:10
so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.
Hebrews 11:5-6
By faith Enoch was taken up, so that he did not experience death, and he was not found, because God took him up. For before his removal, he had been approved {as having been pleasing} to God.
Hebrews 13:16
And do not neglect doing good and generosity, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.
Hebrews 13:21
equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.
1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.