Romans 8:6
For minding the things of the flesh, is death; but minding the things of the Spirit, is life and peace.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
In Context
Cross References
John 14:6Jesus said to him: I am the way, and truth, and life: no one cometh unto my Father, but by me.
John 17:5And now, my Father, glorify thou me, with that glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Romans 5:10For if when we were enemies, God was reconciled with us by the death of his Son; how much more shall we, in his reconciliation, lived by his life?
Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is life eternal, through our Lord Jesus Messiah.
Romans 7:11For sin, by the occasion which it found by means of the commandment, seduced me; and thereby slew me.
Romans 8:13- (For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are to die. But if, by the Spirit, ye mortify the practices of the body, ye will live.
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 →