Romans 8:7

In 9 translations

BSB

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

KJV

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

WEB

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

ASV

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:

LSV

because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity to God, for to the Law of God it does not subject itself,

YLT

because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

DBY

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:ElohimElohim

DRC

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.

GNV

Because the wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God: for it is not subiect to the Lawe of God, neither in deede can be.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

διότι τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς ἔχθρα εἰς θεόν, τῷ γὰρ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐχ ὑποτάσσεται, οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται·

RP2018

διότι τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς ἔχθρα εἰς θεόν, τῷ γὰρ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐχ ὑποτάσσεται, οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται·

TR-Boyd

διότι τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς ἔχθρα εἰς Θεόν, τῷ γὰρ νόμῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐχ ὑποτάσσεται, οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται·

SCR1894

διοτι το φρονημα της σαρκος εχθρα εις θεον τω γαρ νομω του θεου ουχ υποτασσεται ουδε γαρ δυναται

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• 1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• 1 John 2:15–16Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is…
• James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• Ephesians 4:18–19They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over…
• 2 Timothy 3:4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
• Colossians 1:21Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
• Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Romans 8:4so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
• Romans 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
• 2 Peter 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
• Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Romans 7:7–14What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin,…

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