Romans 8:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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  • Gal 5:19-25 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.
  • Col 3:1-3 : 1 If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Mark 8:33 : 33 But when he had turned around and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get behind me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but of the things of men.
  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 And especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed, and not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
  • Rom 8:9 : 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
  • Rom 8:12-14 : 12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
  • Rom 8:6-7 : 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, nor indeed can be.
  • 1 Cor 15:48 : 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
  • 2 Cor 10:3 : 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh:

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  • Rom 8:6-14
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    6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

    7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

    8So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

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

    11But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

    12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

  • Rom 8:1-4
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh.

    4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

  • Gal 5:16-19
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    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

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

    19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

  • Gal 6:8
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    8For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

  • Gal 5:24-25
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    24And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh:

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind: for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

    2That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • John 6:63
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    63It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

  • Col 2:23
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    23These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16Therefore from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

  • Rom 7:18
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    18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) nothing good dwells: for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-15
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    13These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

    14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    15But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.

  • Gal 5:22
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    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

  • Rom 8:23
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    23And not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

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    12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts.

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

  • Rom 8:16
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    16The Spirit Himself bears witness 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, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

  • Gal 3:3
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    3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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    11If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

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