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 'But Put on the Lord Jesus Christ' - Ro 13.14
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Romans 13.14 presents enthusiasts of Bible translation with an opportunity to weigh different renderings [30+ versions here] and ponder which best translates the original Greek. Such a choice is subjective, of course, but how one views and uses a particular translation is of prime importance. Here are some renderings of this verse:

ACV:      But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.
AMPC+:   But clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and make no provision for [indulging] the flesh [put a stop to thinking about the evil cravings of your physical nature] to [gratify its] desires (lusts).
ASV:     But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
AUV:    But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make any plans for satisfying the strong desires of your flesh [i.e., your appetites for sinful pleasures]
CEV:     Let the Lord Jesus Christ be as near to you as the clothes you wear. Then you won't try to satisfy your selfish desires.
CJB:      Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah; and don't waste your time thinking about how to provide for the sinful desires of your old nature.
CSB:     But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires. 
Douay: But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.
EHV:     Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give any thought to satisfying the desires of your sinful flesh.
ESV:      But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
ERV:       But be like the Lord Jesus Christ, so that when people see what you do, they will see Christ. Don't think about how to satisfy the desires of your sinful self.
GNB      But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.
Goodspeed:  But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.
GW:       Instead, live like the Lord Jesus Christ did, and forget about satisfying the desires of your sinful nature.
HCSB:   But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.
JMNT:   but rather, you folks must clothe yourselves with (or: enter within and put on) the Lord, Jesus
KJV:        But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 
Knox:    Rather, arm yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ
LEX:       But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
LSB:       But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
LSV:       but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and take no forethought for the flesh—for desires.
Moffat:  No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.
MSG:     Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!
NASB:   But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.1
NET:      Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
NIV:       Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
NJB:       Let your armour be the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop worrying about how your disordered natural inclinations may be fulfilled.
NLT:      Instead, clothe yourself with the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And don’t let yourself think about ways to indulge your evil desires.
NWTSY: Imitate the qualities (manners) of the Lord. [footnote]
REB_89:   Let Christ Jesus himself be the armour that you wear; give your unspiritual nature no opportunity to satisfy its desires.
TCNT:    No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.
TLB:   But ask the Lord Jesus Christ to help you live as you should, and don’t make plans to enjoy evil.
TPT:   Instead fully immerse yourselves into the Lord Jesus
Tyndale:  \"but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
Weymouth:  On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
Wuest:   But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and stop making provision for the sinful nature with a view to a passionate craving.

Various commentaries flesh out the underlying Greek, which is [from the Kingdom Interlinear]:
ἀλλὰ    ἐνδύσασθε                  τὸν   κύριον  Ἰησοῦν  Χριστόν,  καὶ      τῆς     σαρκὸς      πρόνοιαν      μὴ         ποιεῖσθε           εἰς    ἐπιθυμίας.
But      put YOU on selves         the   Lord        Jesus        Christ      and       of the     flesh        forethought   not     be YOU making     into    desires

The word in focus here is  ἐνδύσασθε.
  1. Thayer defines this [G1746] as: ἐνδύω   enduō   Thayer Definition: 1) to sink into (clothing), put on, clothe one’s self  Part of Speech: verb   A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G1722 and G1416 (in the sense of sinking into a garment).​
  2. Mounce defines it as: \"endyō   27x: to enter, 2Ti_3:6; to put on, clothe, invest, array, Mat_27:31; Mrk_15:17; Mrk_15:20; mid. clothe one’s self, be clothed, Mat_22:11; Mat_22:27; Mat_22:31; trop. to be clothed with spiritual gifts, graces, or character, Luk_24:49; Rom_13:14.
  3. The Complete Word Study Dictionary has: \"We are to \"put on Christ\" (a.t.), which means to be filled, endued with Christ's spirit, be like Him (Rom_13:14; Gal_3:27).\" Endued is not a word in our everyday vocabulary; it is defined as \"endow or provide with a quality or ability. \"our sight would be endued with a far greater sharpness.\"\"
  4. Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Commentary states: \"put on the Lord Jesus Christ: Believers should clothe themselves with Christlike characteristics such as truth (Jhn_14:6), righteousness (1Co_1:30), and peace (Gal_5:22-23; Eph_2:14; Eph_6:10-17).\"
  5. Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible adds some worthwhile background info [and some extraneous material]: \"To be clothed with a person is a Greek phrase, signifying to assume the interests of another - to enter into his views, to imitate him, and be wholly on his side. St. Chrysostom particularly mentions this as a common phrase, ὁ δεινα τον δεινα ενεδυσατο, such a one hath put on such a one; i.e. he closely follows and imitates him. So Dionysius Hal., Antiq., lib. xi., page 689, speaking of Appius and the rest of the Decemviri, says: ουκετι μετριαζοντες, αλλα τον Ταρκυνιον εκεινον ενδυομενοι, They were no longer the servants of Tarquin, but they Clothed Themselves with Him - they imitated and aped him in every thing. Eusebius, in his life of Constantine, says the same of his sons, they put on their father - they seemed to enter into his spirit and views, and to imitate him in all things. The mode of speech itself is taken from the custom of stage players: they assumed the name and garments of the person whose character they were to act, and endeavored as closely as possible to imitate him in their spirit, words, and actions. See many pertinent examples in Kypke.
  6. Albert Barnes' Commentary states: \"But put ye on - Compare Gal_3:17. The word rendered “put ye on” is the same used in Rom_13:12, and is commonly employed in reference to “clothing” or “apparel.” The phrase to “put on” a person, which seems a harsh expression in our language, was one not infrequently used by Greek writers, and means to imbibe his principles, to imitate his example, to copy his spirit, to become like him.   . . .  Thus, to put on the Lord Jesus means to take him as a pattern and guide, to imitate his example, to obey his precepts, to become like him, etc. In “all” respects the Lord Jesus was unlike what had been specified in the previous verse. He was temperate, chaste, pure, peaceable, and meek; and to “put him on” was to imitate him in these respects; Heb_4:15; Heb_7:26; 1Pe_2:22; Isa_53:9; 1Jo_3:5.\"
  7. The NWTSY study note states: \"put on the Lord: Or “imitate the qualities (manners) of the Lord.” The Greek word for “put on” literally means “to clothe (dress) oneself.” (Lu 15:22; Ac 12:21) It is here used figuratively in the sense of taking on the characteristics of someone. The same Greek word is used at Col 3:10, 12 in the expression “clothe yourselves with.” Paul’s admonition at Ro 13:14 means that Christians should follow Jesus closely, figuratively clothing themselves with his example and his disposition, striving to be Christlike.
  8. The Expositor's Greek NT states: \"Rom_13:14. ἀλλὰ ἐνδύσασθε τὸν Κ. Ἰ. Χριστὸν, ἀλλὰ emphasises the contrast between the true Christian life and that which has just been described. The Christian puts on the Lord Jesus Christ, according to Paul’s teaching, in baptism (cf. Gal_3:27), as the solemn deliberate act in which he identifies himself, by faith, with Christ in His death and resurrection (chap. Rom_6:3). But the Christian life is not exhausted in this act, which is rather the starting-point for a putting on of Christ in the ethical sense, a “clothing of the soul in the moral disposition and habits of Christ” (Gifford); or as the Apostle himself puts it in Rom_6:11, a reckoning of ourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Every time we perform an ethical act of this kind we put on the Lord Jesus Christ more fully. But the principle of all such acts is the Spirit of Christ dwelling in us (chaps. 6–8), and it is the essential antagonism of the spirit to the flesh which determines the form of the last words: καὶ τῆς σαρκὸς πρόνοιαν μὴ ποιεῖσθε εἰς ἐπιθυμίας. It is to inquire too curiously if we inquire whether σάρξ here is used in the physiological sense = the body, or in the moral sense = libidinosa caro (as Fritzsche argues): the significance of the word in Paul depends on the fact that in experience these two meanings are indubitably if not inseparably related. Taking the flesh as it is, forethought or provision for it—an interest in it which consults for it, and makes it an object—can only have one end, viz., its ἐπιθυμίαι [n.b. desires]. All such interest therefore is forbidden as inconsistent with putting on the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  9. The IVP NT Commentary Series states: \"In conclusion, Paul returns to the image of clothe yourselves from verse Rom_13:12, but now those new clothes are not the armor of light but the Lord Jesus Christ himself. In a sense then the light is Christ (Jhn_8:12, \"I am the light of the world\"). There is probably a picture of baptism in this as in Gal_3:27, \"all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ,\" but this includes conversion as a whole (Rom_6:3, those \"who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death\") and goes beyond that into the spiritual life that results. The command here centers on the present and connotes the process of becoming like Christ (Eph_4:13, \"the whole measure of the fullness of Christ\"). It is not a once-for-all event (contra Lenski 1945, who misreads the aorist tense here) but a process of becoming (a global aorist). After we have been brought into God's family and put off the old self and put on the new (see on v. 12 above), we begin a lifetime of becoming more like Christ as well as of making him the Lord of our life. The negative side of this is that we do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature (literally \"flesh\"). This sums up the problem of sin discussed throughout verses Rom_13:11-13, for all the vices of darkness could be labeled \"the desires of the flesh.\" The war between the flesh and the Spirit dominated chapter Romans 8 (eleven times) and is at the heart of the victorious Christian life. Only in Christ through the power of the Spirit can we conquer our sinful tendencies. So we must think carefully of the dangers when we gratify the flesh and consider carefully how to overcome this destructive power. Morris ([1988] p. 474) tells how this passage led to the conversion of Augustine. Discouraged by his inability to overcome sexual sin, he one day heard a child at play call out, \"Take up and read.\" Picking up a copy of Romans, his eye fell on this passage. God convicted him of the reality both of his sin and of salvation, and he was converted.\"
  10. Geneva Bible Notes has this: \"To put on Christ is to possess Christ, to have him in us, and us in him.\" which is a simple, understandable comment on Ro 13.14 from 460+ years ago.
  11. College Press Bible Study Textbook Series comments: \"The marvelous solution to the whole problem of returning to the old life is found in Rom_13:14. The expression, “put ye on,” can have reference to the theater. Actors and actresses “put on” the character they attempt to portray. It is sometimes called “getting into the character.” The true actor literally “becomes” another person. We are not play-acting—this is real—but we are to “become” the living representation of the Lord Jesus. How shall we do this if we do not know “the script”? We have a copy of it—the New Testament—in which is found the eyewitness account of our Lord by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Many actors and actresses memorize as much script copy as is in the New Testament to portray one of the prostitutes or drunkards spoken of in Rom_13:13. We can become another man, another woman, by the transformation of our minds. Christ is then formed within us. “It is no longer I that live—“
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​As is shown above, the best rendering of the Greek is one that emphasizes a transformation of the individual from one's base desires into something different, one that puts on the Christ to the extent that he becomes him [of course to an imperfect extent given that we are yet sinful and imperfect]. It is clear that the idea of 'arming' oneself or putting on the 'weapons' of Jesus - whatever that is supposed to mean - bears no relationship to the original Greek.  The Greek is in truth a simple metaphor - one 'puts on' the personality or temperament of God's Son, much as one dons a garment.

 


1 The LSB is an update to the NASB; they render this verse identically.  See here: https://lsbible.org/faqs/#:~:text=By%20translating %20individual %20words%20as,simultaneously%20preserving%20its%20faithful%20legacy, retrieved 7-11-24.  See this page for our review of the Legacy Standard Bible -


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