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Romans 8:5

Those who live according to the flesh pay attention to the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit pay attention to the things of the Spirit.

Unlocked Literal 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

4He did this in order that the requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us, we who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

6For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.

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Cross References

John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:9However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is true that God's Spirit lives in you. But if someone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

1 Corinthians 2:14The unspiritual person does not receive the things that belong to the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. He cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 10:3For even though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

Colossians 3:1If then God has raised you with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is sitting 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 →

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