Romans 8:5
Those who follow their sinful nature are preoccupied with sinful things, but those who follow the Spirit concentrate on spiritual things.
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John 3:6“What's born of the body is body, and what's born of the Spirit is Spirit.
Romans 8:9But you're not following your sinful nature, but the Spirit—if it's true that the Spirit of God is living in you. For those that don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.
1 Corinthians 2:14Of course people who are not spiritual don't accept what comes from God's Spirit. It's just foolish nonsense to them, and they can't understand it, because what is spiritual has to be properly examined.
2 Corinthians 10:3Even though we live in this world, we don't fight as the world does.
Ephesians 5:9(and the fruit of light is everything that's good and right and true),
Colossians 3:1So if you've been brought back to life with Christ, look for what comes from above, where Christ is, sitting at God's right hand.
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 →