Romans 8:5

World English Bible (2000)

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 obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, 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, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • Col 3:1-3 : 1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Mark 8:33 : 33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."
  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
  • Rom 8:9 : 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
  • Rom 8:12-14 : 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must 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 children of God.
  • Rom 8:6-7 : 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
  • 1 Cor 15:48 : 48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
  • 2 Cor 10:3 : 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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

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

    8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

    10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

    11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

    12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

    13 For if you live after the flesh, you must 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 children of God.

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

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

    3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

    4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Gal 5:16-19
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    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

    19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

  • Gal 6:8
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    8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

    6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Gal 5:24-25
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    24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

    25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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

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

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

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1 Forasmuch then as 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;

    2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

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

  • Jude 1:19
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    19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

  • Col 2:23
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    23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

  • 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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    18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

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

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

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

    15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

  • Rom 8:23
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    23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

  • Eph 4:23
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    23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  • Rom 8:16
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    16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

  • Rom 7:23
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    23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 9:11
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    11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

  • Rom 14:17
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    17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.