Romans 8:7

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“because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.”

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BSBPD

“because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 8:7 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  2. 2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
  3. Job 15:13as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
  4. Psalms 53:1The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
  5. Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
  6. Ezekiel 14:5so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
  7. Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  8. Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  9. John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
  10. John 15:23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
  11. Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  12. Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
  13. Romans 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
  14. Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
  15. Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
  16. Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
  17. Romans 8:4so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  18. 1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  19. 1 Corinthians 9:21To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
  20. Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  21. Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  22. Colossians 1:21Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
  23. 2 Timothy 3:4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
  24. Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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