Romans 8:4
Good News Translation
God did this so that the righteous demands of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.

New Revised Standard Version
so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Contemporary English Version
He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.

New American Bible
so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

That.

Galatians 5:22-24 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

Ephesians 5:26,27 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: . . .

Colossians 1:22 Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

Hebrews 12:23 And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

1 John 3:2 Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without spot before the throne of God.

who.

Romans 8:1 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

Context
Living in the Spirit
3For 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 of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh. 4That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 5For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things that are of the spirit.…
Cross References
Luke 1:6
And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

Romans 2:26
If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

Romans 3:31
Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

2 Corinthians 10:2
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

Galatians 5:16
I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Romans 8:3
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