“ So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. ”
So then - It follows; it leads to this conclusion. They that are in the flesh - They who are unrenewed sinners; who are following supremely the desires of the flesh; Romans 7:18 . Those are...
(10) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (10) The conclusion. Therefore they that walk after the flesh cannot please God: by which it follows that they are not grafted into Christ....
The New Man in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 . Therefore now sin's captive escapes! No condemnation: Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20 ; Romans 7:14-24 was all condemnation! Those in Christ Jesus; see...
So, &c. Compare Romans 7:15-17 ; Galatians 1:5 ; Galatians 1:17 . cannot . are not ( Romans 8:7 ) able to.
8. They then who are in the flesh, etc. It is not without reason that I have rendered the adversative δὲ as an illative: for the Apostle infers from what had been said, that those who gi...
DISCOURSE: 1861 VILENESS AND IMPOTENCY OF THE NATURAL MAN Romans 8:7-8 . The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that...
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. So then - Because this carnal mind is enmity against God, they that are in the flesh - who are under the power of the workings of this carnal min...
So then they that are in the flesh, &c.— This is the conclusion drawn from what went before; and in the flesh here, must mean the same as to be carnally-minded, &c. above;—to be under t...
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. So then ('And so;') they that are in (and, therefore, under the government of) the flesh cannot please God - having no obediential princi...
The New Life in Cheist in relation to God and the Spirit It was shown in Romans 5:12 . that condemnation for the guilt of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question...
(1-11) A result is thus attained which the law of Moses could not accomplish, but which is accomplished in the gospel. The Christian is entirely freed from the law of sin and death, and from the cond...
Chapter 17 THE JUSTIFIED: THEIR LIFE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT Romans 8:1-11 THE sequence of the eighth chapter of the Epistle on the seventh is a study always interesting and fruitful. No one can re...
New Life in the Spirit Romans 8:1-9 This may fitly be called the “chapter of the Holy Spirit.” The Apostle has carefully kept this great theme in the background till he has well prepared the gr...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the...
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be....
ON PLEASING GOD ‘They that are in the flesh cannot please God.’ Romans 8:8 In the second collect for Evening Prayer we ask that ‘our hearts may be set to obey’ God’s commandments. It is a th...
So then they that are in the flesh ,.... They that are in the flesh are the same who are said to be after it, Romans 8:5 , and are there described. Such cannot please God ; men, whilst unregenera...
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Ver. 8. Cannot please God ] Their best works are but dead works, saith the author to the Hebrews; but silken sins, saith Augustine. Lombard c...
So then , &c. The inference to be drawn from the principles just laid down, is, they that are in the flesh In the sense explained in the preceding verses, and especially Romans 7:5 , where se...
Deliverance Simply by God's Truth We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decide...
The Believer's Privileges. A. D. 58. 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which...
So then; this verse is a consectary, or it follows from that which went before. They that are in the flesh; not they which are married, as a pope once expounded it; the next verse refels such an...
The Contrast Between Flesh And Spirit Is Considered, Leading Up To The Assurance Of Life Through The Triune God And A Declaration Of Our Sonship And Heirship (8:5-17). Reference to ‘walking not af...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 8:5 .—The state is indicated in Romans 7:25 , when the mind can serve the law of God, and only the flesh is subject to the law of sin. Romans 8:6 . Carnally minded (φρό...
Romans 8:1-11 In the verses before us three points are touched on regarding the gospel as God's power to sanctify. These are: (1) The preliminary work which had to be done by the coming of Christ,...
Romans 8:1 . There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. My hearers, we are each of us, by nature, under the cond...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot...
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God. The carnal mind I. Its attitude towards God. 1. Enmity. (1) Hating the thought of God. (2) Resisting the grace of God. 2. Insubordinat...
EXPOSITION Romans 8:1-45 ( c ) The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be ref...
The difference between the carnal mind and the spiritual mind:
1 Corinthians 7:32 ; 1 John 3:22 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; Colossians 1:10 ; Colossians 3:20 ; Hebrews 11:5 ; Hebrews 11:6 ; Hebrews 13:16 ; Hebrews 13:21 ; John 3:3 ; John 3:5 ; John 3:6 ;...
They who are in the flesh — Under the government of it.