Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Bible Questions Answered: Romans 8:1
Bible Questions Answered:
I heard a Sunday teacher say, that the last half of Romans 8:1 should be left off. What are they talking about, leaving off parts of scripture?
Andrew/ Cradock, South Africa
Bible Answers:
The last half of verse one of Romans chapter eight, is said to be an “interpolation: Altering (corrupting) an original manuscript, by adding some thing.”
The words, “...who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” (should not be at the end of verse one, but do appear in their rightful place at the end of verse four.)
These words, also do not appear in original manuscripts, and so for this reason are left out of the following versions of the Bible.
Bible Commentator, Adam Clarke
This last clause (of Romans 8:1) is wanting in the principal MSS., versions, and fathers.
Griesbach has excluded it from the text; and Dr. White says, Certissime delenda; it should most undoubtedly be expunged. Without it, the passage reads thus: There is, therefore, no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; for the law of the Spirit of life, &c. It is a fairly assumed point, that those who are in Christ Jesus, who believe in his name, have redemption in his blood; are made partakers of his Spirit, and have the mind in them that was in him; will not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit: therefore the thing itself is included in the being in Christ, whether it be expressed or not: and it was probably to make the thing more obvious, that this explanatory clause was added by some copyist, for it does not appear to have made an original part of the text; and it is most likely that it was inserted here from the fourth verse.
Romans 8:1 KJV
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1 NLT
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NET
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NAS
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 RSV
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NIV
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
Romans 8:1-4 KJV should read......
[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
[2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
[3] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
[4] That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
I heard a Sunday teacher say, that the last half of Romans 8:1 should be left off. What are they talking about, leaving off parts of scripture?
Andrew/ Cradock, South Africa
Bible Answers:
The last half of verse one of Romans chapter eight, is said to be an “interpolation: Altering (corrupting) an original manuscript, by adding some thing.”
The words, “...who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” (should not be at the end of verse one, but do appear in their rightful place at the end of verse four.)
These words, also do not appear in original manuscripts, and so for this reason are left out of the following versions of the Bible.
Bible Commentator, Adam Clarke
This last clause (of Romans 8:1) is wanting in the principal MSS., versions, and fathers.
Griesbach has excluded it from the text; and Dr. White says, Certissime delenda; it should most undoubtedly be expunged. Without it, the passage reads thus: There is, therefore, no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; for the law of the Spirit of life, &c. It is a fairly assumed point, that those who are in Christ Jesus, who believe in his name, have redemption in his blood; are made partakers of his Spirit, and have the mind in them that was in him; will not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit: therefore the thing itself is included in the being in Christ, whether it be expressed or not: and it was probably to make the thing more obvious, that this explanatory clause was added by some copyist, for it does not appear to have made an original part of the text; and it is most likely that it was inserted here from the fourth verse.
Romans 8:1 KJV
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1 NLT
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NET
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NAS
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 RSV
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NIV
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
Romans 8:1-4 KJV should read......
[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
[2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
[3] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
[4] That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.