Romans 8:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • John 3:5-6 : 5 Iesus answered, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except that a man be borne of water and of the Spirite, hee can not enter into the kingdome of God. 6 That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.
  • Heb 11:5-6 : 5 By faith was Enoch translated, that he should not see death: neither was he found: for God had translated him: for before he was translated, he was reported of, that he had pleased God. 6 But without faith it is vnpossible to please him: for he that commeth to God, must beleeue that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seeke him.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you perfect in all good workes, to doe his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise for euer and euer, Amen.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For 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.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smelleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 That ye might walke worthy of the Lord, & please him in all things, being fruitefull in all good workes, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all thing for that is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:32 : 32 And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.
  • John 8:29 : 29 For he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left me alone, because I do alwayes those things that please him.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And loe, a voyce came from heauen, saying, This is my beloued Sonne, in whome I am well pleased.
  • John 3:3 : 3 Iesus answered, & said vnto him, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except a man be borne againe, he can not see the kingdome of God.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 And whatsoeuer we aske we receiue of him, because we keepe his commaundements, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 To doe good, and to distribute forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

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    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 8:1-7
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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.

    5For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

    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.

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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.

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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.

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    8That is, they which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God: but the children of the promes, are counted for the seede.

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    17Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.

    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.

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    24For they that are Christes, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes.

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    12As many as desire to make a faire shewe in the flesh, they constraine you to be circumcised, onely because they would not suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ.

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

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

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    20Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.

  • Rom 2:27-28
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    27And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

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    8But meate maketh not vs acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.

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    3Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh.

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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.

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    29That no flesh shoulde reioyce in his presence.

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    39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.

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

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