Romans 8:5
For they who are according to the flesh have their mind on the things of the flesh; but they who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit 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 ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one hath to not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
1 Corinthians 2:14But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot 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 5:9—for the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,—
Colossians 3:1If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on 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 →