Romans 8:5
For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
Cross References
John 3:6That which is begotten of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is begotten of the Spirit, is spirit.
Romans 8:9But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now, if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
1 Corinthians 2:14But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Colossians 3:1If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where the Christ sits 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 →