Romans 8:7
Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, indeed it cannot be.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6Now the mind set on the flesh is death; but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
8So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:19Therefore, whoever shall break one of the least commandments, and shall so teach men to do, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
Romans 1:28And as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.
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 →