Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.
Cross References
John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
Ephesians 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth,
Colossians 3:1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting 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 →