Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.
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.
8And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Cross References
Job 15:13For against God hast thou turned thy spirit, And uttered such words from thy mouth.
Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, Who have been accustomed to do evil.
Matthew 5:19Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;
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 →