Other translations
American Standard Version
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For The Spirit is God, and it is fitting that those who worship him worship in The Spirit and in The Truth.”
Darby Bible Translation
God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
God's Word
God is a spirit. Those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
Holman Christian Standard Bible
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
International Standard Version
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
NET Bible
God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
New American Standard Bible
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
New International Version
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."
New Living Translation
For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."
Webster's Bible Translation
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Weymouth New Testament
God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."
The World English Bible
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
EasyEnglish Bible
God is spirit. People who worship him must worship from their spirits in a true way.’
Young‘s Literal Translation
God [is] a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
New Life Version
God is Spirit. Those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
Revised Geneva Translation
“God is a Spirit. And those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.”
The Voice Bible
Jesus: Woman, I tell you that neither is so. Believe this: a new day is coming—in fact, it’s already here—when the importance will not be placed on the time and place of worship but on the truthful hearts of worshipers. You worship what you don’t know while we worship what we do know, for God’s salvation is coming through the Jews. The Father is spirit, and He is seeking followers whose worship is sourced in truth and deeply spiritual as well. Regardless of whether you are in Jerusalem or on this mountain, if you do not seek the Father, then you do not worship.
Living Bible
Jesus replied, “The time is coming, ma’am, when we will no longer be concerned about whether to worship the Father here or in Jerusalem. For it’s not where we worship that counts, but how we worship—is our worship spiritual and real? Do we have the Holy Spirit’s help? For God is Spirit, and we must have his help to worship as we should. The Father wants this kind of worship from us. But you Samaritans know so little about him, worshiping blindly, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes to the world through the Jews.”
New Catholic Bible
God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.”
Legacy Standard Bible
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Jubilee Bible 2000
God is a Spirit and those that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Christian Standard Bible
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”
Amplified Bible © 1954
God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).
New Century Version
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The Message
“Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem. You worship guessing in the dark; we Jews worship in the clear light of day. God’s way of salvation is made available through the Jews. But the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter. “It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament
God is spirit, · and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
New Matthew Bible
God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
Good News Translation®
God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.”
Wycliffe Bible
God is a Spirit, and it behooveth them that worship him, to worship in spirit and truth.
New Testament for Everyone
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
Contemporary English Version
God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
J.B. Phillips New Testament
“Believe me,” returned Jesus, “the time is coming when worshipping the Father will not be a matter of ‘on this hill-side’ or ‘in Jerusalem’. Nowadays you are worshipping with your eyes shut. We Jews are worshipping with our eyes open, for the salvation of mankind is to come from our race. Yet the time is coming, yes, and has already come, when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in reality. Indeed, the Father looks for men who will worship him like that. God is spirit, and those who worship him can only worship in spirit and in reality.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’
Common English Bible © 2011
God is spirit, and it is necessary to worship God in spirit and truth.”
Amplified Bible © 2015
God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
English Standard Version Anglicised
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.”
New American Standard Bible
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The Expanded Bible
God is ·spirit [Spirit], and those who worship him must worship in ·spirit [Spirit] and truth.”
Tree of Life Version
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Revised Standard Version
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
New International Reader's Version
God is spirit. His worshipers must worship him in the Spirit and in truth.”
BRG Bible
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth.
Complete Jewish Bible
God is spirit; and worshippers must worship him spiritually and truly.”
Worldwide English (New Testament)
The woman said to Jesus, `I know that Messiah is coming. His name is Christ. When he comes he will tell us everything.'
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Hashem is Ruach (Spirit) and it is necessary for the ones worshiping Him to worship in Ruach and Emes. [Ezek 36:26-27; 37:14]
Names of God Bible
God is a spirit. Those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Modern English Version
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”
Easy-to-Read Version
God is spirit. So the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
International Children’s Bible
God is spirit. Those who worship God must worship in spirit and truth.”
Lexham English Bible
God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
New International Version - UK
God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.’
Disciples Literal New Testament
God is spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth”.