Romans 8:7
For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace.
8And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19"So whoever breaks one of these least commandments, and teaches others to break them, will be least in the kingdom of heaven. But he who keeps them and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.
Romans 1:28And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.
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 →