Romans 8:5
For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.
Cross References
John 3:6That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:9But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.
1 Corinthians 2:14Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.
Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Colossians 3:1If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:2-10
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after… Read the whole commentary →