Romans 8:7
because the mindset of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God's law, nor indeed can it.
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In Context
6Further, the mindset of the flesh yields death, but the mindset of the Spirit yields life and peace;
8So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Therefore, whoever annuls one of the least of these commandments and teaches that to the people will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but does hate me, because I testify about it that its works are malignant.
Romans 1:28So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things:
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 →