6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
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For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)I. The apostle here beings with one signal privilege of true Christians, and describes the character of those to whom it belongs: There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus , Rom. 8:1. This is his triumph after that melancholy complaint and conflict in the foregoing chapter—sin remaining, disturbing, vexing, but, blessed be God, not ruining. The complaint he takes to…
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