Romans 8:7
The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God's law, nor is it able to do so.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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In Context
6For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.
8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God. I punish the ancestors' wickedness by bringing punishment on the descendants, to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
Job 15:13so that you turn your spirit against God 1 and bring out such words from your mouth? 1
Jeremiah 13:23Can the people of Cush change their skin color, or a leopard change its spots? 1 If so, then you yourself, although accustomed to wickedness, would be able to do good. 1
Matthew 5:19Therefore whoever breaks the least one of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever keeps them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28Because they did not approve of having God in their awareness, he gave them up to a depraved mind, for them to do those things that are not proper.
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 →