Romans 8:7
Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.
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.
8And those that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men so, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do the 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 →