Top Verses from Romans 8  

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. (NIV)

For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit. (AMP)

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. (KJV)

The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. (NIV)

Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. (AMP)

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (KJV)

Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. (NIV)

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. (AMP)

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (KJV)

For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. (NIV)

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. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption, the redemption of our bodies. (NIV)

And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons). (AMP)

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (KJV)

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (NIV)

We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now. [Jer. 12:4, 11.] (AMP)

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. (KJV)

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation – but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. (NIV)

So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh. (AMP)

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. (KJV)

And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. (NIV)

And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. (AMP)

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (KJV)

But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. (NIV)

But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you]. (AMP)

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (KJV)

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope (NIV)

For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it--[yet] with the hope [Eccl. 1:2.] (AMP)

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, (KJV)