Romans 8:8

New American Bible - revised edition

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Cross References

Matthew 3:17

And a voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

John 3:3

Jesus answered and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”

John 8:29

The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:9

But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

1 Corinthians 7:32

I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

Philippians 4:18

I have received full payment and I abound. I am very well supplied because of what I received from you through Epaphroditus, “a fragrant aroma,” an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brothers, we earnestly ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as you received from us how you should conduct yourselves to please God—and as you are conducting yourselves—you do so even more.

Hebrews 13:16

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have; God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind.

Hebrews 13:21

furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will. May he carry out in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever [and ever]. Amen.

1 John 3:22

and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.