Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Ver. 7. Because the carnal mind] The best of a bad man is not only averse, but utterly adverse to all goodness. Homo est inversus decalogus, Job 11:12, an ass's foal for rudeness, a wild ass's for unruliness.
Neither indeed can be] Spiritual arguments to a carnal heart are but warm clothes to a dead man. He hath brought a miserable necessity of sinning upon himself: his soul and all the powers thereof being but the shop of sin; his body and all the parts thereof tools of sin; his life and all his actions of both soul and body a trade of sin.