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Romans 8:5

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

In Context

4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit.

6Now the mind set on the flesh is death; but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

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Cross References

John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:9But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh:

Ephesians 5:9(For the fruit of the Spirit consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Colossians 3:1If you have been raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits 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 →

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