Then Jehu son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.
Romans 8:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be. |
Then Jehu son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.
as you turn your anger against God and allow such words to leave your mouth?
Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.”
Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it #– #that its works are evil.
And because they did not think it worth while to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.
slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
To those who are without the law, like one without the law #– #though I am not without God’s law but under the law of Christ #– #to win those without the law.
Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds, as expressed in your evil actions.
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated by empty notions of his unspiritual mind.
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For 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. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!