Romans 8:7
Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
6for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
8But those being in depravity are not able to please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Therefore if any one may break one of the least of these commandments, and so teach the people, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whosoever may do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
John 7:7The world is not able to hate you; but it hates me, because I testify against it, that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate;
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 →