Romans 8:7
Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.
8And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Job 15:13Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth ?
Jeremiah 13:23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.
Matthew 5:19He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Romans 1:28And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;
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 →