Romans 8:5
For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.
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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 has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
1 Corinthians 2:14For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh
Ephesians 5:9(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
Colossians 3:1If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated 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 →