KJV King James Version
Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
WEB World English Bible
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
ASV American Standard Version
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:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
Surrounding context — Romans 8
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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.
7 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.
10 And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
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διότιG1360 · diotibecauseτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoφρόνημαG5427 · phronēmapurposeτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoσαρκὸςG4561 · sarxfleshἔχθραG2189 · echthrahostilityεἰςG1519 · eistowardθεόν·G2316 · theosGodτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoγὰρG1063 · garforνόμῳG3551 · nomoslawτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεοῦG2316 · theosGodοὐχG3756 · ounoὑποτάσσεται,G5293 · hupotassōto subjectοὐδὲG3761 · oudenorγὰρG1063 · garforδύναται·G1410 · dunamaibe able
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 2:14But 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.1 John 2:15-16Love 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.James 4:4Ye 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.Ephesians 4:18-19Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:Hebrews 8:10For 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:Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:2 Timothy 3:4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;Colossians 1:21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciledRomans 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.Romans 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.Romans 1:30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Romans 7:7-14What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.Matthew 5:19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
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