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Romans 8:5

For if men are controlled by their earthly natures, they give their minds to earthly things. If they are controlled by their spiritual natures, they give their minds to spiritual things.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

4in order that in our case the requirements of the Law might be fully met. For our lives are regulated not by our earthly, but by our spiritual natures.

6Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

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Cross References

John 3:6Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:9You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

1 Corinthians 2:14The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.

2 Corinthians 10:3For, though we are still living in the world, it is no worldly warfare that we are waging.

Ephesians 5:9Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--

Colossians 3:1If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.

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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