Romans 8:5
For they who live after the flesh, give their attention to the things of the flesh; But they who live after the spirit, give their attention to spiritual things.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace.
Cross References
John 3:6What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:9But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
1 Corinthians 2:14The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God’s Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,
2 Corinthians 10:3Though I do walk on the low level of the flesh, I do not make war as the flesh does;
Ephesians 5:9Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.
Colossians 3:1If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on 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 →