Romans 8:5
For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded 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 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we war not after the flesh:
Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Colossians 3:1IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are 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 →