Romans 8:5
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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the spirit is life and peace:
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 ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
1 Corinthians 2:14Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
Ephesians 5:9(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Colossians 3:1If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated 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 →