Romans 8:7
Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.
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.
8They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so, he shall be accounted the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall practise, and teach them, he shall be reckoned great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
Romans 1:28And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming;
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 →