Romans 8:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

Common English Bible

⁶ The attitude that comes from selfishness leads to death, but the attitude that comes from the Spirit leads to life and peace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:6 Cross References

Galatians 6:8

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Romans 8:7

For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,

Romans 8:13

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.

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 5:22

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

Romans 6:21

So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

Romans 14:17

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

Romans 7:5

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

John 17:5

So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

Romans 8:27

And God, who searches hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.