Romans 8:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 absurd conception; but they that are carnal and unregenerate; the same with those who, in Romans 8:5, are said to be after the flesh. Cannot please God; neither they, nor any thing they do, is pleasing unto him; their best works are dead works, and silken sins (as one expresseth it): it must be understood with this limitation, so long as they continue in such a state: see Psalms 5:4,5 Heb 11:6.