Romans 8:5

Weymouth NT

For if men are controlled by their earthly natures, they give their minds to earthly things. If they are controlled by their spiritual natures, they give their minds to spiritual things.

Cross References

Mark 8:33

But turning round and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter. »Get behind me, Adversary,« He said, »for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's.«

John 3:6

Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:9

You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

1 Corinthians 15:48

What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy; and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For, though we are still living in the world, it is no worldly warfare that we are waging.

Galatians 5:17

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

Ephesians 5:9

Live and act as sons of Light –for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth–

2 Peter 2:10

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality–craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;