Romans 8:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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  • Gal 5:19-25 : 19 Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes, 20 Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies, 21 Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God. 22 But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth, 23 Meekenesse, temperancie: against such there is no lawe. 24 For they that are Christes, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes. 25 If we liue in the Spirit, let vs also walke in the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the naturall man perceiueth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishnesse vnto him: neither can hee knowe them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.
  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walke, of whom I haue told you often, and nowe tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the Crosse of Christ: 19 Whose ende is damnation, whose God is their bellie, and whose glorie is to their shame, which minde earthly things.
  • Col 3:1-3 : 1 If yee then bee risen with Christ, seeke those thinges which are aboue, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. 2 Set your affections on things which are aboue, and not on things which are on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
  • Mark 8:33 : 33 Then he turned backe, & looked on his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behinde me, Satan: for thou vnderstandest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.
  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 And chiefly them that walke after the flesh, in the lust of vncleannesse, and despise gouernement, which are bolde, and stand in their owne conceite, and feare not to speake euill of them that are in dignitie.
  • Rom 8:9 : 9 Now ye are not in the flesh, but in ye Spirit, because ye spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man hath not ye Spirit of Christ, ye same is not his.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth)
  • Rom 8:12-14 : 12 Therefore brethren, wee are detters not to the flesh, to liue after the flesh: 13 For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue. 14 For as many as are ledde by the Spirit of God, they are the sonnes of God.
  • Rom 8:6-7 : 6 For the wisedome of the flesh is death: but the wisedome of the Spirit is life and peace, 7 Because the wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God: for it is not subiect to the Lawe of God, neither in deede can be.
  • 1 Cor 15:48 : 48 As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly: and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.
  • 2 Cor 10:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh.

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  • Rom 8:6-14
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    6For the wisedome of the flesh is death: but the wisedome of the Spirit is life and peace,

    7Because the wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God: for it is not subiect to the Lawe of God, neither in deede can be.

    8So then they that are in the flesh, can not please God.

    9Now ye are not in the flesh, but in ye Spirit, because ye spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man hath not ye Spirit of Christ, ye same is not his.

    10And if Christ bee in you, the body is dead, because of sinne: but the Spirite is life for righteousnesse sake.

    11But if the Spirit of him that raised vp Iesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised vp Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortall bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

    12Therefore brethren, wee are detters not to the flesh, to liue after the flesh:

    13For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue.

    14For as many as are ledde by the Spirit of God, they are the sonnes of God.

  • Rom 8:1-4
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    1Now then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus, which walke not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

    2For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.

    3For (that that was impossible to ye Lawe, in as much as it was weake, because of ye flesh) God sending his owne Sonne, in ye similitude of sinful flesh, & for sinne, condened sinne in the flesh,

    4That that righteousnes of the Law might be fulfilled in vs, which walke not after ye flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Gal 5:16-19
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    16Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.

    18And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.

    19Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes,

  • Gal 6:8
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    8For hee that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reape corruption: but hee that soweth to the spirit, shal of the spirit reape life euerlasting.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in ye flesh, the affections of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.

    6But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

  • Gal 5:24-25
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    24For they that are Christes, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes.

    25If we liue in the Spirit, let vs also walke in the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

  • John 3:6
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    6That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put yee on the Lorde Iesvs Christ, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lustes of it.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for vs in the flesh, arme your selues likewise with the same minde, which is, that he which hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sinne,

    2That he hence forward should liue (as much time as remaineth in the flesh) not after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

  • John 6:63
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    63It is the spirite that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the woordes that I speake vnto you, are spirite and life.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are they that separate them selues from other, naturall, hauing not the Spirit.

  • Col 2:23
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    23Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16Wherefore, henceforth know we no man after the flesh, yea though wee had knowen Christ after the flesh, yet nowe henceforth know we him no more.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth)

  • Rom 7:18
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    18For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10But God hath reueiled them vnto vs by his Spirit: for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deepe things of God.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-15
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    13Which things also we speake, not in the woordes which mans wisedome teacheth, but which the holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spirituall things with spirituall things.

    14But the naturall man perceiueth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishnesse vnto him: neither can hee knowe them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    15But hee that is spirituall, discerneth all things: yet he himselfe is iudged of no man.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19Let vs then followe those things which concerne peace, and wherewith one may edifie another.

  • Gal 5:22
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    22But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth,

  • Rom 8:23
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    23And not onely the creature, but we also which haue the first fruites of the Spirit, euen we doe sigh in our selues, waiting for the adoption, euen the redemption of our body.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Let not sinne reigne therefore in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in ye lusts therof:

  • Eph 4:23
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    23And be renued in the spirit of your minde,

  • Rom 8:16
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    16The same Spirit beareth witnesse with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

  • Rom 7:23
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    23But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

  • Gal 3:3
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    3Are ye so foolish, that after ye haue begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the flesh?

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

  • 1 Cor 9:11
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    11If wee haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?

  • Rom 14:17
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    17For the kingdome of God, is not meate nor drinke, but righteousnes, and peace, and ioye in the holy Ghost.