Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
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In Context
6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
8So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
Job 15:13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
Jeremiah 13:23Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
Matthew 5:19Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
Romans 1:28And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
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 →