Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
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In Context
6Now the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is 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 8:9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept what comes from the Spirit of God, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it because it is spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the Spirit is found in all goodness, righteousness, and truth).
Colossians 3:1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at 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 →