Romans 8:6

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

In Context

5For 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.

7Because the way of thinking of the basar is hostility, eyvah + 8:7 Gn 3:15 (enmity) toward G-d, for it does not submit itself to the Gezetz of G-d; for it cannot.

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Cross References

John 14:6Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, I am HaDerech, HaEmes, and HaChayyim. No one comes to HaAv except through me. + 14:6 1Sm 3:7

John 17:5And now give me kavod, Avi, along with Yourself with the kavod which I was having with You before HaOlam came to be. + 17:5 Yn 1:1-3; Prov 8:30; 30:4

Romans 5:10For if when we were [G-dʼs] oyevim (enemies), we were reconciled to Hashem through the histalkus (passing), the mavet + 5:10 Isa 53:12; Dan 9:26 (death) of the Zun fun der Oybershter, + 5:10 Moshiach how much more, having been reconciled and no longer oyevim, shall we be delivered by his + 5:10 Techiyah (Resurrection) Chayyim!

Romans 6:23For the loin (wages) that + 6:23 slave master Chet (Sin) pays out of its own payroll is mavet (death); however, the gracious matnat hachesed Hashem (the gift of the grace of G-d) is Chayyei Olam b'Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.

Romans 7:11For Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), deceived me and, through the mitzvoh (commandment), killed me. + 7:11 Gn 3:1-6

Romans 8:13For if you live in accordance with the basar + 8:13 old fallen humanity under slave master Chet Kadmon you will certainly die; but if by the Ruach Hakodesh you put to death the [shameful] acts of the body, you will live.

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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