Romans 8:7 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁷ For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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:

Common English Bible

⁷ So the attitude that comes from selfishness is hostile to God. It doesn’t submit to God’s Law, because it can’t.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

Romans 8:7 Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:2

But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

Job 15:13

that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Psalm 53:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 5:19

Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

Romans 1:30

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,

Romans 8:4

in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside the law.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

James 4:4

Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!