Romans 8:7

New Century Version

When people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God’s law and really are not even able to obey God’s law.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu son of Hanani, a seer, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Why did you help evil people? Why do you love those who hate the Lord? That is the reason the Lord is angry with you.

Job 15:13

Why do you speak out your anger against God? Why do these words pour out of your mouth?

Psalm 53:1

Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” Fools are evil and do terrible things; none of them does anything good.

Exodus 20:5

You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If you hate me, I will punish your children, and even your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can a person from Cush change the color of his skin? Can a leopard change his spots? In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good, because you are accustomed to doing evil.

Ezekiel 14:5

Then I will win back my people Israel, who have left me because of all their idols.’

Matthew 12:34

You snakes! You are evil people, so how can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart.

Matthew 5:19

Whoever refuses to obey any command and teaches other people not to obey that command will be the least important in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys the commands and teaches other people to obey them will be great in the kingdom of heaven.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does.

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

Romans 1:30

and say evil things about each other. They hate God. They are rude and conceited and brag about themselves. They invent ways of doing evil. They do not obey their parents.

Romans 3:31

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

Romans 5:10

While we were God’s enemies, he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Surely, now that we are his friends, he will save us through his Son’s life.

Romans 7:22

In my mind, I am happy with God’s law.

Romans 8:4

He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A person who does not have the Spirit does not accept the truths that come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks they are foolish and cannot understand them, because they can only be judged to be true by the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those who are without the law I became like a person who is without the law. I did this to win those people who are without the law. (But really, I am not without God’s law—I am ruled by Christ’s law.)

Colossians 1:21

At one time you were separated from God. You were his enemies in your minds, and the evil things you did were against God.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone disqualify you by making you humiliate yourself and worship angels. Such people enter into visions, which fill them with foolish pride because of their human way of thinking.

2 Timothy 3:4

will turn against their friends, and will do foolish things without thinking. They will be conceited, will love pleasure instead of God,

Hebrews 8:10

This is the agreement I will make with the people of Israel at that time, says the Lord. I will put my teachings in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

James 4:4

So, you are not loyal to God! You should know that loving the world is the same as hating God. Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes God’s enemy.

2 Peter 2:14

Every time they look at a woman they want her, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into the trap of sin, and they have taught their hearts to be greedy. God will punish them!