Romans 8:7
And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.
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In The King James Version
In Context
6For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.
8So those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Job 15:13Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?
Jeremiah 13:23If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.
Matthew 5:19Therefore, whoever will have loosened one of the least of these commandments, and have taught men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever will have done and taught these, such a one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:
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 →