Romans 8:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Romans 8:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 6:8
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.
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 8:13
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.
Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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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 h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. For--a mere particle of transition here [Tholuck], like “but” or “now.” to be carnally minded--literally, “the mind” or “minding of the flesh” (Margin); that is, the pursuit of fleshly ends. is death--not only “ends in” [Alford, &c.], but even now “is”; carrying death into its bosom, so that such are “dead while they live” (1Ti 5:6; Ep 2:1, 5) [Philippi]. but to be spiritually minded--“the mind…