Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.
A Conservative Version
It is the spirit that makes alive. The flesh benefits nothing. The sayings that I speak to you are spirit, are life.
American Standard Version
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
It is the Holy Spirit who [Note: The Greek word here is "that" instead of "who"] gives life [i.e., understanding the spiritual nature of Jesus' teaching can produce spiritual life]; the flesh is of no value [i.e., understanding Jesus' teaching only in a physical sense makes it worthless]. The words I have spoken to you are [from the] Holy Spirit and [they give] life.
Anderson New Testament
It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.
Bible in Basic English
The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
Common New Testament
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.
Daniel Mace New Testament
it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.
Darby Translation
It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.
Godbey New Testament
The Spirit is the One who creates life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and life.
Goodspeed New Testament
The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
John Wesley New Testament
It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken, they are spirit and they are life.
Julia Smith Translation
It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
King James 2000
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Modern King James verseion
It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you are spirit and life.
Moffatt New Testament
What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.
Montgomery New Testament
"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.
NET Bible
The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
New Heart English Bible
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Noyes New Testament
It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.
Sawyer New Testament
The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
The Emphasized Bible
The spirit, it is, that giveth life, - the flesh, profiteth, nothing: The declarations which, I, have spoken unto you, are, spirit, and, are, life.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
The Spirit is the life-giving power; the flesh contributeth nothing: the declarations which I make to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.
Webster
It is the spirit that reviveth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Williams New Testament
The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.
World English Bible
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Worrell New Testament
It is the Spirit That giveth life; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.
Worsley New Testament
The spirit is the principle of life, the flesh availeth nothing: now the words that I speak unto you are spirit, and therefore life.
Youngs Literal Translation
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
Themes
Backsliders » Lack of spiritual insight
Christ » Words of characteristics of » Spiritual
Flesh » Symolical » Body of Christ symbolized by the bread
Holy spirit » The leadership of » Giveth life
Holy spirit » Guides » Quickens
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches in the synagogue in capernaum
Profit » What is not profitable
Quickening » Of God's people » By the holy spirit
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to spiritual quickening
The scriptures » The letter of, without the spirit, killeth
Spirit » The leadership of » Giveth life
Spirit » Quickeneth » Giveth life
Spirit/souls » What is spirit/spiritual
Spiritual » Quickening » General references to spiritual quickening
Words » Christ's, characteristics of » Spiritual
Topics
Interlinear
Pneuma
Esti
ἐστί
Esti
Usage: 585
Devotionals
Devotionals about John 6:63
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 6:63
Verse Info
Context Readings
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
62 "Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before? 63 It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
Cross References
John 6:68
"Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages.
1 Corinthians 15:45
In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.
John 12:49-50
Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.
Romans 8:2
for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.
Romans 10:8-10
But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are publishing about the faith--
Galatians 5:25
If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.
Romans 10:17
And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9-14
But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them that love Him.
1 Corinthians 11:27-29
Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:6-8
It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit; for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only a renewed nature.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.
1 Timothy 4:8
Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.
Hebrews 4:12
For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.
James 1:18
In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.
1 Peter 1:23
For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.
1 Peter 3:18
because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
1 Peter 3:21
And, corresponding to that figure, the water of baptism now saves you--not the washing off of material defilement, but the craving of a good conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Romans 2:25
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing.
Romans 3:1-2
What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit is to be derived from circumcision?
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.