Romans 8:14

Amplified Bible

For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The true children of God are those who let God's Spirit lead them.

Revised Standard Version
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For as many as are led by the sprete of God: they are the sonnes of god.

Hebrew Names Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

International Standard Version
For all who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.Galatians 5:18;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God.

New Century Version
The true children of God are those who let God's Spirit lead them.

Update Bible Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

English Standard Version
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

World English Bible
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God.

Weymouth's New Testament
For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For who euere ben led bi the spirit of God, these ben the sones of God.

English Revised Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Berean Standard Bible
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Contemporary English Version
Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children.

American Standard Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Bible in Basic English
And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Complete Jewish Bible
All who are led by God's Spirit are God's sons.

Darby Translation
for as many as are led by [the] Spirit of God, *these* are sons of God.

Etheridge Translation
For they who by the Spirit of Aloha are led, they are the sons of Aloha.

Murdock Translation
For they who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God:)

King James Version (1611)
For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sonnes of God.

New Living Translation
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

New Life Bible
All those who are led by the Holy Spirit are sons of God.

New Revised Standard
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For as many as are ledde by the Spirit of God, they are the sonnes of God.

George Lamsa Translation
Those who are led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, as many as by God's Spirit are being led, the same, are God's sons, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For as many as are led by the spirite of God, they are the sonnes of God.

Good News Translation
Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.

Christian Standard Bible®
For all those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

King James Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Lexham English Bible
For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Literal Translation
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Young's Literal Translation
for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For who so euer are led by the sprete of God,

Mace New Testament (1729)
as many as are actuated by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

New English Translation
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

New King James Version
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Those who ride for God are children of God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Legacy Standard Bible
For as many as are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰If Christ lives in you, though your [natural] body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness [which He provides]. ¹¹And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. ¹²So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]— ¹³for if you are living according to the [impulses of the] flesh, you are going to die. But if [you are living] by the [power of the Holy] Spirit you are habitually putting to death the sinful deeds of the body, you will [really] live forever. ¹⁴For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.¹⁵For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear [of God's judgment], but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [the Spirit producing sonship] by which we [joyfully] cry, "Abba! Father!" ¹⁶The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [believers] are children of God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

led: Romans 8:5, Romans 8:9, Psalms 143:10, Proverbs 8:20, Isaiah 48:16, Isaiah 48:17, Galatians 4:6, Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:18, Galatians 5:22-25, Ephesians 5:9

they are: Romans 8:17, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Galatians 3:26, Ephesians 1:5, 1 John 3:1, Revelation 21:7

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:5 - Lead Ezekiel 36:27 - I will Hosea 1:10 - Ye are the sons Matthew 4:1 - was Matthew 23:9 - for John 1:12 - to them John 14:17 - but John 20:17 - your Father Romans 5:5 - because 2 Corinthians 1:22 - the earnest 2 Corinthians 13:14 - the communion Hebrews 2:10 - many 1 John 3:2 - now are we the

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 8:13
Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah's life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

Genesis 8:14
On the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was [entirely] dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,.... Not by the spirit of the world, or of the devil, or by their own spirits: the act of leading ascribed to the Spirit is either in allusion to the leading of blind persons, or such who are in the dark; or rather to the leading of children and teaching them to go; which supposes life in those that are led, and some degree of strength, though a good deal of weakness; and is a display of powerful and efficacious grace, and is always for their good: the Spirit of God leads them from sin, and from a dependence on their own righteousness, in paths they formerly knew not, and in which they should go, in the paths of faith and truth, of righteousness and holiness, and in a right, though sometimes a rough way; he leads them to the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ, and to the fulness of grace in him; into the presence of God, to the house and ordinances of God; into the truths of the Gospel, from one degree of grace to another, and at last to glory; which he does gradually, by little and little he leads them to see the iniquity of their hearts and natures, to lay hold on Christ and salvation by him, into the doctrines of grace, and the love and favour of God, and proportionally to the strength he gives: now such persons,

they are the sons of God: not in so high a sense as Christ is; nor in so low a sense as Adam was, and angels are; much less in such sense as wicked magistrates be; nor merely as professors of religion in common; but by adoption, not national, such as that of the Jews, but special; and which has some agreement with civil adoption, it being of persons to an inheritance, which they have no legal right unto, and it is done freely: though there is a difference between the one and the other; for in divine adoption there is no need on the adopter's side; nor no worth on the side of the adopted; proper qualifications are conveyed to them for the enjoyment of the inheritance, and which is enjoyed, the father and firstborn being living, and is an inheritance which vastly exceeds all others: now this blessing of being the sons of God, is owing not to ourselves, nor to our earthly parents, but to God; to the Father, who predestinated to it, and fixed it in the covenant of grace; to Christ, it is by him, as the Son of God, it is through him, as the Mediator, and it is for him, it is for his glory; and also to the Spirit of God, who manifests it, works faith to receive it, witnesses to it, and seals up to the full enjoyment of it. This favour is an instance of surprising grace, exceeds other blessings, makes the saints honorourable, is attended with many privileges, and lasts for ever: such who are in this relation to God, ought to ascribe it to his grace, to require him with thankfulness, and a becoming conversation, to be followers of him, and to love, honour, and obey him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For as many - Whosoever; all who are thus led. This introduces a new topic, illustrating the benefits of the gospel, to wit, that it produces a spirit of adoption, Romans 8:14-17.

As are led - As submit to his influence and control. The Spirit is represented as influencing, suggesting, and controlling. One evidence of piety is, a willingness to yield to that influence, and submit to him. One decided evidence of the lack of piety is, where there is an unwillingness to submit to that influence, but where the Holy Spirit is grieved and resisted. All Christians submit to his influence; all sinners decidedly reject it and oppose it. The influence of the Spirit, if followed, would lead every man to heaven. But when neglected, rejected, or despised, man goes down to hell. The glory belongs to the conducting Spirit when man is saved; the fault is man’s when he is lost. The apostle here does not agitate the question how it is that the people of God are led by the Spirit, or why they yield to it when others resist it. His design is simply to state the fact, that they who are thus led are the sons of God, or have evidence of piety.

Are the sons of God - Are adopted into his family, and are his children. This is a name of endearment, meaning that they sustain to him this relation; that they are his friends, disciples, and imitators; that they are parts of the great family of the redeemed, of whom he is the Father and Protector. It is often applied to Christians in the Bible; Job 1:6; John 1:12; Philippians 2:15; 1 John 3:1-2; Matthew 5:9, Matthew 5:45; Luke 6:35. This is a test of piety which is easily applied.

(1) Are we conscious that an influence from above has been drawing us away from the corrupting passions and vanities of this world? This is the work of the Spirit.

(2) Are we conscious of a desire to yield to that influence, and to be conducted in the path of purity and life? This is an evidence that we are the sons of God.

(3) Do we offer no resistance; do we follow cheerfully, and obey this pure influence, leading us to mortify pride, subdue passion, destroy lust, humble ambition, and annihilate the love of wealth and of the world? If so, we are his children. God will not lead us astray; and our peace and happiness consists only in yielding ourselves to this influence entirely, and in being willing to be conducted by this unseen hand “beside the still waters of salvation.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 8:14. For as many as are led by the Spirit, c.] No man who has not Divine assistance can either find the way to heaven, or walk in it when found. As Christ, by his sacrificial offering, has opened the kingdom of God to all believers and, as a mediator, transacts the concerns of their kingdom before the throne; so the Spirit of God is the great agent here below, to enlighten, quicken, strengthen, and guide the true disciples of Christ; and all that are born of this Spirit are led and guided by it; and none can pretend to be the children of God who are not thus guided.