Romans 8:5

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

Young's Literal Translation

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 may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

6for the mind of the flesh [is] death, and the mind of the Spirit — life and peace;

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Cross References

John 3:6that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:9And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ — this one is not His;

1 Corinthians 2:14and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because spiritually they are discerned;

2 Corinthians 10:3for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

Ephesians 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

Colossians 3:1If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

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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