Romans 8:5 - Easy To Read Version

⁵ People that live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want. But those people that live following the Spirit {\cf2\super [62]} are thinking about the things that the Spirit wants them to do.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Common English Bible

⁵ People whose lives are based on selfishness think about selfish things, but people whose lives are based on the Spirit think about things that are related to the Spirit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit.

Romans 8:5 Tagairtí Cros

Mark 8:33

But Jesus turned and looked at his followers. Then he criticized Peter. Jesus said to Peter, “Go away from me, Satan {\cf2\super [102]} ! You don’t care about the things of God. You care only about things that people think are important.”

John 3:6

A person’s body is born from his human parents. But a person’s spiritual life is born from the Spirit.

Romans 8:9

But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, {\cf2\super [63]} if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But if any person does not have the Spirit of Christ, then that person does not belong to Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:48

People belong to the earth. They are like that first man of earth. But those people who belong to heaven are like that man of heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A person that is not spiritual does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks that those things are foolish. That person cannot understand the things of the Spirit, because those things can only be judged spiritually.

2 Corinthians 10:3

We do live in the world. But we don’t fight in the same way that the world fights.

Galatians 5:17

Our sinful selves want things that are against the Spirit. The Spirit wants things that are against our sinful selves. These two different things are against each other. So you don’t do the things you really want to do.

Ephesians 5:9

Light brings every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.

2 Peter 2:10

That punishment is for those people who live by doing the bad things their sinful selves want, and it is for people who hate the Lord’s authority (power).