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Romans 8:5

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.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

In Context

4so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

6Further, the mindset of the flesh yields death, but the mindset of the Spirit yields life and peace;

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Cross References

John 3:6That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:9You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

1 Corinthians 2:14Now a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; indeed, he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 10:3Well, we do walk about in flesh, but we do not wage war that way,

Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Colossians 3:1Furthermore, since you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God's 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 →

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