Romans 8:6

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For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

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  • Gal 6:8 : 8 Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
  • John 14:27 : 27 May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
  • Rom 7:11 : 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
  • John 17:5 : 5 And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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  • Rom 8:1-5
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    1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3 For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 8:7-14
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    7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

    8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

    14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8 Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Gal 5:16-18
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    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

    18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 6:10-12
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    10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

  • Rom 6:6-8
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    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

    8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

    22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Eph 4:23
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    23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12 So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

  • John 6:63
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    63 The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3 For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh

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    17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • Gal 5:24-25
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    24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

    25 If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6 For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Rom 7:10
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    10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

  • 1 Cor 2:14-16
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    14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

    15 But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.

    16 For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.

  • Rom 12:2
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    2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

  • Rom 7:23
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    23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

  • Rom 8:38
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    38 For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,

  • Rom 14:8
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    8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

  • Rom 8:16
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    16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.