Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.
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.
8Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Whoever, therefore, shall make void one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things;
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 →