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Romans 8:7

SinObedienceThe law

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.

6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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BSB
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
KJV
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
WEB
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
ASV
because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
DARBY
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:
BLB
because the mind of the flesh [is] hostility toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for [it is] not even able.
ÅB
Kjøttet er fiendtlig innstilt mot Gud – for det er ikke lydig mot Guds lov, og kan heller ikke være det –
OTB
Fordi kjødelig sinn er fiendtlig mot Gud; det underordner seg ikke Guds lov, og kan heller ikke gjøre det.
B1930
fordi kjødets attrå er fiendskap mot Gud - for det er ikke Guds lov lydig, kan heller ikke være det -

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Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 2:14

    But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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  • 1 John 2:15–16

    Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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  • James 4:4

    Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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  • Ephesians 4:18–19

    Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

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  • Romans 7:22

    For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

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  • Colossians 1:21

    And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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  • Hebrews 8:10

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

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  • 2 Timothy 3:4

    Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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