{"id":1533,"date":"2012-10-30T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligent-torvalds.74-208-171-134.plesk.page\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2024-05-31T06:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:42:59","slug":"romans-part-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Romans, Part 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

So then, brothers and sisters<\/em>, Paul continued, we are under obligation<\/em> (\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f73\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9<\/a>, a form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/a>), not to the flesh<\/em> (\u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u1f76<\/a>, a form of \u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be<\/a>), to live according to the flesh<\/em> (\u03c3\u1f71\u03c1\u03ba\u03b1<\/a>, another form of \u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be<\/a>)\u20261<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 The word translated obligation<\/em> above is also found in Matthew\u2019s version of the Lord\u2019s prayer, and forgive<\/a> us our debts<\/em> (\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f75\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1<\/a>, a form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03af\u03bb\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1<\/a>), as we ourselves have forgiven<\/a> our debtors<\/em> (\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f73\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03c2<\/a>, another form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/a>).2<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 This is a powerful concept, but first I want to focus on what the flesh<\/em> is not.<\/p>\n

The flesh<\/em> as Paul used it is not the body<\/em>.\u00a0 Be careful<\/em>, he warned, not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ<\/em>.3<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 If<\/em>4<\/sup><\/a> you have died with Christ<\/a><\/em>5<\/sup><\/a> to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world? \u00a0\u201cDo not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!\u201d \u00a0These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings. \u00a0Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship<\/em>6<\/sup><\/a> and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment<\/em>7<\/sup><\/a> of the body <\/em>(\u03c3\u1f7d\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>, a form of \u03c3\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b1<\/a>) \u2013 a wisdom with no true value \u2013 they in reality result in fleshly <\/em>(\u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u1f79\u03c2<\/a>, another form of \u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be<\/a>) indulgence <\/em>(\u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u1f74\u03bd<\/a>, a form of \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03ae<\/a>).8<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

In other words, \u201cI self-flagellate three times a day and only eat bread and water,\u201d is the same pride and religious thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.\u00a0 It is the religious impulse of the flesh of Adam.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The flesh<\/em> is not sexual desire.\u00a0 A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights<\/a> <\/em>(\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f74\u03bd<\/a>, a form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ae<\/a>), and likewise a wife to her husband. \u00a0It is not the wife who has the rights <\/em>(\u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u1f71\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9<\/a>, a form of \u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9<\/a>) to her own body<\/em> (\u03c3\u1f7d\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>, a form of \u03c3\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b1<\/a>), but<\/a> the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights <\/em>(\u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u1f71\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9<\/a>, a form of \u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9<\/a>) to his own body<\/em> (\u03c3\u1f7d\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>, a form of \u03c3\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b1<\/a>), but<\/a> the wife <\/em>[Table<\/a>]. \u00a0Do not deprive each other, except<\/a> by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer<\/a><\/em> [Table<\/a>].9<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 While the believer in Christ is not obligated<\/em> (\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f73\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9<\/a>, a form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/a>) or\u00a0a debtor<\/em>\u00a0to the flesh, husband and wife are indebted<\/em> (\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f74\u03bd<\/a>, a form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ae<\/a>) to each other sexually.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, neither the wife nor the husband possesses the \u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u1f71\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9<\/a> (a form of \u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9<\/a>;\u00a0authority<\/em>, power<\/em>) over her or his own body. \u00a0That belongs to the spouse.\u00a0 This is the same authority<\/em> that Gentile kings lorded<\/em> over their subjects as Jesus told his disciples, \u201cThe kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority<\/em> (\u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u1f71\u03b6\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2<\/a>, another form of \u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9<\/a>) over them are called \u2018benefactors.\u2019 \u00a0Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become<\/em>10<\/sup><\/a> like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.\u201d<\/em>11<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 It is the same control<\/em> Paul would not allow anything to have over him: \u201cAll things are lawful for me\u201d \u2013 but not everything is beneficial. \u201cAll things are lawful for me\u201d \u2013 but I will not be controlled<\/em> (\u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u1f75\u03c3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9<\/a>, another form of \u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9<\/a>) by anything<\/em>.12<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll go the long way around and circle back to this.<\/p>\n

While sex (and sexual desire) in and of itself is not the flesh<\/em>, if I set my sights on another\u2019s wife (or a prostitute) that is the flesh<\/em>.\u00a0 (Or do you not know that anyone who is united<\/em> [\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u1f7d\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>, a form of \u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03c9<\/a>] with a prostitute <\/em>[\u03c0\u1f79\u03c1\u03bd\u1fc3<\/a>, a form of \u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7<\/a>] is one body with her?<\/em>13<\/sup><\/a>)\u00a0 Here is where the power I spoke of earlier comes into play.\u00a0 If I believe that I delight in the law of God in my inner being<\/em>,14<\/sup><\/a> then the desire for another\u2019s wife or a prostitute, which is clearly contrary to God\u2019s law, is not my desire:\u00a0Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but<\/a> sin that lives in me<\/em>.15<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 It is like a distant early warning system, sounding the alarm which I<\/em> is asserting control.<\/p>\n

This distinction may not be so obvious for the young, the virginal, or the single.\u00a0 I should know.\u00a0 I\u2019ve spent most of my adult life single.\u00a0 But I want to address that in a separate essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Now not everyone lumps the old man, flesh, sin personified, desire of the flesh and so on together as one thing<\/em>.\u00a0 But I have read a lot of Nietzsche, and out of deference, I suppose, for the help he has been to me I try to keep what he would call \u201cimaginary causes and effects\u201d16<\/sup><\/a> to a minimum. I can posit all of this sin and rebellious desire in an old man born of Adam (as well as the credited righteousness of God and the fruit of his Spirit in a new creation born from above in the image of Christ) without feeling that any of this is my imagination.\u00a0 And the quantum leap (there is no time or space between energy quanta<\/a>) between the old and new I<\/em> describes my experience with chilling accuracy, especially in outbursts of anger<\/em>.17<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Even as I rant I wonder, \u201cWho are you?\u201d For I don\u2019t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want \u2013 instead, I do what I hate<\/em>.18<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0That\u2019s how my father<\/a> used to act!\u00a0 And there have been times when that brought me back from the brink.\u00a0 (But there have also been times when that did not bring me back from the brink and I reveled in the sensual pleasure of rage.)<\/p>\n

The main theological objection to lumping the old man, flesh, sin personified, desire of the flesh and so on together is that our old man was crucified with<\/em>19<\/sup><\/a> Jesus.\u00a0 It is therefore dead (and presumably gone).\u00a0 I take the death of Adam as my key here.\u00a0 God said, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die<\/em>.20<\/sup><\/a> Something died in Adam when he became knowledgeable of evil.<\/p>\n

I heard you moving about in the orchard<\/em>, Adam said to God, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid<\/em>,21<\/sup><\/a> yet Adam had been naked all along.\u00a0 The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed<\/em>,22<\/sup><\/a> not with God, not with each other, and not with the animals.\u00a0 In a similar sense something has died in me, too.\u00a0 The old man no longer has my absolute unquestioned allegiance as me.\u00a0 And that is all Paul said, We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin<\/em>.23<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died<\/em>.24<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 And in a similar way I await that ultimate condemnation of sin in the flesh,25<\/sup><\/a> the death of this body.<\/p>\n

I promised I would circle back via the long way.\u00a0 Why would Paul counsel Corinthian husbands and wives to treat each other sexually in ways that Jesus did not want his disciples to treat each other at all, and under a control<\/em> that Paul himself would not allow anything to have over him?\u00a0 So, here goes.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0the flesh got the wild idea to seek out a prostitute I wouldn\u2019t know where to begin to look for one.\u00a0 Add to that, I know me.\u00a0 If I had sex with a pretty young prostitute I would fall in love with a pretty young prostitute.\u00a0 About a decade after my first divorce it took several days for me to get the pretty nurse who administered\u00a0a barium enema out of my mind.\u00a0 I can be a silly old fool, no doubt about it.\u00a0\u00a0But chasing a pretty young prostitute, saying, \u201cI love you, I love you, let me take you away from all of this,\u201d is a sillier old fool than I can be.\u00a0 I live in the Midwest.\u00a0 I am working class all the way.\u00a0 I grew up in a fundamentalist church.\u00a0 There is something unseemly about visiting a prostitute.<\/p>\n

Though the Roman government had apparently put a damper on the sexual worship of goddesses (and gods) in other places, this practice still flourished in Corinth<\/a> at the time Paul wrote<\/a>.\u00a0 Visiting a temple prostitute was good and in some cases necessary for good fortune.\u00a0 Highly skilled sex slaves, both male \u03c0\u1f79\u03c1\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9<\/a> (a form of\u00a0\u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>) and female \u03c0\u1f79\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2<\/a> (a form of\u00a0\u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7<\/a>), were readily available, and Paul counseled husbands and wives, because of this \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bd\u03b5\u1f77\u03b1\u03c2<\/a> (a form of \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bd\u03b5\u03af\u03b1<\/a>), to be that for each other<\/a>.\u00a0 He never repented of it.\u00a0 He never gave it a different spin that I have found.\u00a0 So I assume that even that degree of sensual and sexual commitment between husband and wife was not living according to the flesh<\/em>26<\/sup><\/a> in Paul\u2019s understanding of the term he appropriated to describe the situation of the one born of the flesh and of the Spirit.<\/p>\n

I want to leave the pelvic sins<\/a> (as I heard a clever wag call them) to ponder the wider scope of\u00a0opposition of the flesh to the Spirit of God.\u00a0 Now the works of the flesh are obvious<\/a>: sexual immorality<\/em> (\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bd\u03b5\u03af\u03b1), impurity, depravity, idolatry<\/a>, sorcery, hostilities, strife<\/a>, jealousy<\/a>, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things<\/em>.27<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 There is a world of sin less than a hair\u2019s breadth and a nanosecond away from me<\/em> (there is no time or space between quantum states) at every moment of my life here in this body.\u00a0 But I say<\/em>, Paul wrote the Galatians, live by the Spirit<\/a> and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh<\/em>.28<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 So then, brothers and sisters<\/em>, Paul wrote the Romans, we are under obligation<\/em>, not to the flesh<\/em>, to live according to the flesh<\/em>\u202629<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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Addendum<\/b>: May 31, 2024<\/span>
\nTables comparing Genesis 5:5<\/a> in the Tanakh, KJV and NET, and comparing the Greek of Genesis 5:5<\/a> in the Septuagint (BLB and Elpenor), and tables comparing Colossians 2:20<\/a>; 2:23<\/a> and Luke 22:26<\/a> in the KJV and NET follow.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Genesis 5:5 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nAnd all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nThe entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Genesis 5:5 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03b3\u1f73\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u1f31 \u1f21\u03bc\u1f73\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9 \u0391\u03b4\u03b1\u03bc \u1f03\u03c2 \u1f14\u03b6\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd<\/a> <\/b>\u1f10\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u1f79\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u1f71\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u1f14\u03c4\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f73\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03bd<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03b3\u1f73\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u1f31 \u1f21\u03bc\u1f73\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9 \u1fbf\u0391\u03b4\u1f71\u03bc, \u1f03\u03c2 \u1f14\u03b6\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5<\/a><\/b>, \u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u1f71\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u1f79\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1 \u1f14\u03c4\u03b7, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f73\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03bd<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Genesis 5:5 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

And all the days of Adam, that he lived, amounted to nine hundred thirty years, and he died.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nAnd all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Colossians 2:20 (KJV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nWherefore <\/b>if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u0395\u1f30 \u1f00\u03c0\u03b5\u03b8\u1f71\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c3\u1f7a\u03bd \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u1ff7 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f78 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u1f77\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u1f79\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5, \u03c4\u1f77 \u1f61\u03c2 \u03b6\u1ff6\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd \u03ba\u1f79\u03c3\u03bc\u1ff3 \u03b4\u03bf\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u1f77\u03b6\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03b5\u03b9 \u03bf\u03c5\u03bd<\/a> <\/b>\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd \u03c4\u03c9<\/a> <\/b>\u03c7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03c9 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b6\u03c9\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b5\u03bd \u03ba\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03c9 \u03b4\u03bf\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03b6\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03b5\u03b9 \u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd \u03c7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03c9 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b6\u03c9\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b5\u03bd \u03ba\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03c9 \u03b4\u03bf\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03b6\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Colossians 2:23 (KJV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body\u2014a wisdom with no true value\u2014they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nWhich things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and <\/b>neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Colossians 2:23 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Colossians 2:23 (Byzantine Majority Text)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u1f05\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03bb\u1f79\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u1f14\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c3\u03bf\u03c6\u1f77\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd \u1f10\u03b8\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03b8\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03ba\u1f77\u1fb3<\/a> <\/b>\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u1f7b\u03bd\u1fc3 \u1f00\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u1f77\u1fb3 \u03c3\u1f7d\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u1fc7 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u1f74\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u1f79\u03c2<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1 \u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c3\u03bf\u03c6\u03b9\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03b8\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03b8\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1<\/a> \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9<\/a><\/b> \u03b1\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bf\u03c5\u03ba \u03b5\u03bd \u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03b7\u03bd \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1 \u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd \u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c3\u03bf\u03c6\u03b9\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03b8\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03b8\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9<\/b> \u03b1\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bf\u03c5\u03ba \u03b5\u03bd \u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03b7\u03bd \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Luke 22:26 (NET)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Luke 22:26 (KJV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nBut ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Luke 22:26 (NET Parallel Greek)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Luke 22:26 (Stephanus Textus Receptus)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Luke 22:26 (Byzantine Majority Text)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u1f51\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bf\u1f50\u03c7 \u03bf\u1f55\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2, \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1fbf \u1f41 \u03bc\u03b5\u1f77\u03b6\u03c9\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u1f51\u03bc\u1fd6\u03bd \u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u1f73\u03c3\u03b8\u03c9<\/a> <\/b>\u1f61\u03c2 \u1f41 \u03bd\u03b5\u1f7d\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f41 \u1f21\u03b3\u03bf\u1f7b\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f61\u03c2 \u1f41 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u1ff6\u03bd<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03bf\u03c5\u03c7 \u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb \u03bf \u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03b6\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd \u03c5\u03bc\u03b9\u03bd \u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03c9<\/a> \u03c9\u03c2 \u03bf \u03bd\u03b5\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bf \u03b7\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03bf \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03bf\u03c5\u03c7 \u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb \u03bf \u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03b6\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd \u03c5\u03bc\u03b9\u03bd \u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03c9 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03bf \u03bd\u03b5\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bf \u03b7\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03bf \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Romans, Part 31<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Young, Virginal, or Single\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Romans, Part 32<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Conclusion<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Sexual Immorality Revisited, Part 3<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Father, Forgive Them, Part 3<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to The Day of the Lord, Part 6<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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1<\/sup><\/a> Romans 8:12 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/sup><\/a> Matthew 6:12 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/sup><\/a> Colossians 2:8 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4<\/sup><\/a> The Stephanus Textus Receptus<\/a> had \u03bf\u03c5\u03bd<\/a> (KJV: Wherefore<\/em>) here. The NET parallel Greek<\/a> text, NA28<\/sup><\/a> and Byzantine Majority Text<\/a> did not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5<\/sup><\/a> The Stephanus Textus Receptus<\/a> had the article \u03c4\u03c9<\/a> preceding Christ<\/em>. The NET parallel Greek<\/a> text, NA28<\/sup><\/a> and Byzantine Majority Text<\/a> did not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6<\/sup><\/a> The NET parallel Greek<\/a> text and NA28<\/sup><\/a> had \u1f10\u03b8\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03b8\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03ba\u1f77\u1fb3<\/a> in the dative case<\/a> here, where the Stephanus Textus Receptus<\/a> and Byzantine Majority Text<\/a> had \u03b5\u03b8\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03b8\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1<\/a> (KJV: will worship<\/em>) in the nominative case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7<\/sup><\/a> The Stephanus Textus Receptus<\/a>, Byzantine Majority Text<\/a> and NA28<\/sup><\/a> had \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76<\/a> preceding by an unsparing treatment <\/em>(KJV: neglecting<\/em>). The NET parallel Greek<\/a> text did not (NET note 46<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8<\/sup><\/a> Colossians 2:20-23 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9<\/sup><\/a> 1 Corinthians 7:3-5a (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10<\/sup><\/a> The NET parallel Greek<\/a> text and NA28<\/sup><\/a> had \u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u1f73\u03c3\u03b8\u03c9<\/a> in the present tense here, where the Stephanus Textus Receptus<\/a> and Byzantine Majority Text<\/a> had \u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03c9<\/a> (KJV: let him be<\/em>) in the 2nd aorist tense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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11<\/sup><\/a> Luke 22:25, 26 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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12<\/sup><\/a> 1 Corinthians 6:12 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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13<\/sup><\/a> 1 Corinthians 6:16 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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14<\/sup><\/a> Romans 7:22 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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15<\/sup><\/a> Romans 7:20 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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16<\/sup><\/a> Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist <\/em>(part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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17<\/sup><\/a> Galatians 5:20 (NET)<\/a> Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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18<\/sup><\/a> Romans 7:15 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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19<\/sup><\/a> Romans 6:6 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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20<\/sup><\/a> Genesis 2:17 (NKJV) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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21<\/sup><\/a> Genesis 3:10 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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22<\/sup><\/a> Genesis 2:25 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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23<\/sup><\/a> Romans 6:6 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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24<\/sup><\/a> Genesis 5:5 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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25<\/sup><\/a> Romans 8:3 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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26<\/sup><\/a> Romans 8:12 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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27<\/sup><\/a> Galatians 5:19-21a (NET) [Table<\/a>] There is no note explaining why, but adultery<\/em> (\u03bc\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03b1<\/a>) which heads this list in the KJV does not even appear in the Greek text from which the NET was translated. It does begin the list in the textus receptus<\/a> (received text).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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28<\/sup><\/a> Galatians 5:16 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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29<\/sup><\/a> Romans 8:12 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So then, brothers and sisters, Paul continued, we are under obligation (\u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u1f73\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9, a form of \u1f40\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2), not to the flesh (\u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ba\u1f76, a form of \u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be), to live according to the flesh (\u03c3\u1f71\u03c1\u03ba\u03b1, another form of \u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be)\u20261\u00a0 The word translated obligation … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[901,20,6],"tags":[973,974,971,970,969,977,413,975,976,972,55,778,857,884,881,968],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-8","category-romans","category-section-two","tag-1-corinthians-612","tag-1-corinthians-616","tag-1-corinthians-73-5","tag-colossians-220-23","tag-colossians-28","tag-galatians-516","tag-galatians-519-21","tag-genesis-217","tag-genesis-310","tag-luke-2225-26","tag-matthew-612","tag-romans-66","tag-romans-715","tag-romans-720","tag-romans-722","tag-romans-812"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24039,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/24039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}