Romans 8:7

Romans 8:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• New International Version (NIV)The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

Context of Romans 8:7

5For 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. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Romans 8:7 word by word

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

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Becauseδιότιdioti · becauseG1360
• the carnalσάρξsarx · fleshG4561
• mindφρόνημαphronēma · purposeG5427
• enmityἔχθραechthra · hostilityG2189
• againstεἰςeis · towardG1519
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• forγάρgar · forG1063
• it isὑποτάσσωhupotassō · to subjectG5293
• notοὐou · noG3756
• to the lawνόμοςnomos · lawG3551
• neitherοὐδέoude · norG3761
• can beδύναμαιdunamai · be ableG1410

Cross-references for Romans 8:7

• Romans 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
• Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I Yhwh thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
• 2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate Yhwh? therefore is wrath upon thee from before Yhwh.
• Psalms 53:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
• John 15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
• Ephesians 4:18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
• Colossians 1:21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
• 2 Timothy 3:4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
• James 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• 1 John 2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Romans 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Matthew 5:19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Commentaries on Romans 8:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God - Because it is a carnal mind, and relishes earthly and sinful things, and lives in opposition to the pure and holy law of God: therefore, it is enmity against God; it is irreconcilable and implacable hatred. It is not subject to the law of God - It will come under no obedience; for it is sin, and the very principle of rebellion; and therefore it cannot be subject, nor subjected; for it is essential to sin to…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Because - This is given as a reason for what is said in Romans 8:6. In that verse the apostle had affirmed that to be carnally minded was death, but he had not stated why it was. He now explains it by saying that it is enmity against God, and thus involves a sinner in conflict with him, and exposes to his condemnation. The carnal mind - This is the same expression as occurs in Romans 8:6 ̀ ́ ̀ ́ to phronēma tēs sarkosIt does not mean the mind itself…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God--The desire and pursuit of carnal ends is a state of enmity to God, wholly incompatible with true life and peace in the soul. for it is not subject--"doth not submit itself." to the law of God, neither indeed can be--In such a state of mind there neither is nor can be the least subjection to the law of God. Many things may be done which the law requires, but nothing either is or can be done because God's…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 8:7

• Carnal Mindedness
• Character
• Depravity of Man
• Godlessness
• Heart
• Holy Spirit
• Religion
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Allow
• Bondage
• Carnal
• Enmity
• Fear
• Flesh
• Foreknow
• Glorify

Commentaries on Romans 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings