“It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.”
— WEB
John 6:63
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
— KJV
“It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.”
— ASV
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Commentary
the flesh profiteth nothing--Much of His discourse was about "flesh"; but flesh as such, mere flesh, could profit nothing, much less impart that life which the Holy Spirit alone communicates to the soul. the words that I speak . . . are spirit and . . . life--The whole burden of the discourse is "spirit," not mere flesh, and "life" in its highest, not its lowest sense, and the words I have employed are to be interpreted solely in that sense.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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