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Romans 8:7

WEB

7because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

KJV

7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

BSB

7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

FBV

7The sinful human mind is hostile to God because it refuses to obey the law of Godin fact it never can,

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 2:14

14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he cant know them, because they are spiritually discerned.


1 John 2:15-16

15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. 16For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.


James 4:4

4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.


Ephesians 4:18-19

18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. 19They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


2 Timothy 3:4

4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,


Romans 7:22

22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,


Hebrews 8:10

10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.


Colossians 1:21

21You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,


Romans 8:4

4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


Romans 5:10

10For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.