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

Because {G1360} the carnal {G4561} mind {G5427} is enmity {G2189} against {G1519} God {G2316}: for {G1063} it is {G5293} not {G3756} subject {G5293} to the law {G3551} of God {G2316}, neither {G3761} indeed {G1063} can be {G1410}.

For the mind controlled by the old nature is hostile to God, because it does not submit itself to God’s Torah — indeed, it cannot.

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

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:

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Cross-References

  • 1 Corinthians 2:14 (30 votes)

    But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

  • 1 John 2:15 (23 votes)

    Love 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.

  • 1 John 2:16 (23 votes)

    For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  • James 4:4 (21 votes)

    Ye 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.

  • Ephesians 4:18 (15 votes)

    Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

  • Ephesians 4:19 (15 votes)

    Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • Romans 7:22 (13 votes)

    For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: