Romans 8:7
Because minding the things of the flesh, is enmity towards God: for it doth not subject itself to the law of God, because it is not possible.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
8And they who are in the flesh cannot Please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Therefore whoever shall break one of these small commands and shall so inculcate on the children of men, shall be called little in the kingdom of heaven: but every one that shall do and teach them, shall be called 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 as they did not determine with themselves to know God, God gave them over to a vain mind; that they might do what they ought not,
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 →