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Romans 8:5

For those who exist in terms of the basar take the side of the basar, whereas those who exist in terms of the Ruach + 8:5 Hakodesh take the side of the Ruach Hakodesh.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

4In order that the maleh chukat haTorah + 8:4 see Lv 18:5 (the full statute requirement of the Torah) might be fulfilled in us whose halakhah is in the Derech [HaChayyim] (the Way [of Life]) according to the Ruach Hakodesh and not in accordance with the basar.

6For the way of thinking of the basar is mavet (death), whereas the way of thinking of the Ruach Hakodesh is Chayyim and Shalom.

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Cross References

John 3:6That which is born of basar is basar, and that which is born of the Ruach is ruach.

Romans 8:9However, you are not in the basar + 8:9 i.e., unregenerate but in the Ruach Hakodesh, assuming that the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem does indeed dwell in you — if anyone does not have the Ruach HaMoshiach, that person does not belong to Moshiach.

1 Corinthians 2:14But a natural person does not receive the things of the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem, for they are narrishkait (foolishness) + 2:14 1C 1:21-24 to him, and he is not able to have personal saving da'as of them, because they are discerned in the Ruach Hakodesh.

2 Corinthians 10:3For though walking in basar, we war not according to the basar,

Ephesians 5:9For the p'ri HaOhr is in doing chesed and tzedek and emes,

Colossians 3:1If therefore you were made to stand up alive in hitkhadshut with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, seek the things above, where Moshiach is, LI'MIN ELOHIM, + 3:1 Ps 110:1 sitting at the right hand of Hashem.

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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