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Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace,
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace,
Verse Romans 8:6. _FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED_ IS _DEATH_] To live under the influence of the carnal mind is to live in the state of condemnation, and consequently liable to death eternal: whereas, on...
FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED - Margin, “The minding of the flesh.” The sense is, that to follow the inclinations of the flesh, or the corrupt propensities of our nature, leads us to condemnation and deat...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
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 was _all_ co
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
Those who live according to the dictates of sinful human nature are absorbed in worldly human things. Those who live according to the dictates of the Spirit are absorbed in the things of the Spirit. T...
TO BE, &C.. the minding (Greek. _phronema_. Only here and Romans 8:7; Romans 8:27) of the flesh. IS: i.e. results in. TO BE SPIRITUALLY, &C.. the minding of the spirit (App-101. as in Romans 8:2). Co...
_For_ The reference of this "for" is not clear at first sight. Probably the sequence of thought is that the difference of carnal and spiritual preferences is profoundly real; _for_the former involves...
The power is the indwelling spirit. (1) It follows from this examination of man’s state under law, that in our present state, as effected by GOD, those who are made one with Christ Jesus are not under...
ΤῸ ΦΡΌΝΗΜΑ. Almost = the policy, the leading idea, of the flesh when isolated and uncontrolled, i.e. of man as merely earthly. Only in this chapter....
ΦΡΌΝΗΜΑ (G5427) образ мыслей, настрой, цель, надежды, порывы (BAGD). ΤΗΣ ΣΑΡΚΌΣ (G4561) _gen._ плоти; об этом представлении _см._ ВВС; DPL, 303-6; _gen._ описания, указывает на отношение, которое явл...
DISCOURSE: 1860 THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL MIND CONTRASTED Romans 8:6. _To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace_. THE world in general are much mistaken with resp...
FOR TO BE CARNALLY-MINDED IS DEATH— _For_ joins what follows to Romans 8:1 as the reason of what is here laid down; namely, that deliverance from condemnation is experienced only by such Christian con...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:1-11. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of deat...
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. FOR. This is scarcely to be taken as a mere particle of transition here, like 'But' or 'Now;' but neither is it i...
__ Conciliation-Individual 13 From the supposition that the law being holy and just and good, involved him in death. it seems that what is good may become the cause of death. But such is not the cas...
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 as to...
TO BE CARNALLY MINDED.. SPIRITUALLY MINDED] RV 'the mind of the flesh.. the mind of the spirit.'...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
(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 conde...
(5-8) Further description of the antithesis between flesh and spirit in regard to (1) their object, Romans 8:5; (2) their nature, Romans 8:7; (3) their end, Romans 8:6....
Translate, _For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace._ To think of nothing but the gratification of the senses, is in itself death — that dead condition of the...
CHAPTER 17 THE JUSTIFIED: THEIR LIFE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT Romans 8:1 THE sequence of the eighth chapter of the Epistle on the seventh is a study always interesting and fruitful. No one can read the tw...
The Spirit as the principle of righteousness and life....
NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT Romans 8:1 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 ground, by...
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 n...
(7) For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. (7) He demonstrates what follows from his argument: because whatever the flesh savours, that brings about d...
VV. 6 explains (γάρ, _for_) the moral necessity with which this motion constantly proceeds, from the inward moral state to aspiration, and from aspiration to action. There is on both sides, as it were...
SEVENTEENTH PASSAGE (8:1-11). THE VICTORY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OVER SIN AND DEATH....
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
“ _For they that are after the flesh aspire after the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit aspire after the things of the Spirit. For the aspiration of the flesh is death; but the a...
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. ...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
6._The minding of the flesh_, _etc. _[Erasmus ] has rendered it “affection,” (_affectum _ _;_) the old translator, “prudence,” (_prudentiam _.) But as it is certain that the το φρονημα of Paul is the...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH,.... The phrase the apostle here uses, includes the best part of corrupt man; the mind, the understanding, the judgment, the will, the affections, the thoughts, the...
For to be carnally minded _is_ death; but to be spiritually minded _is_ life and peace. Ver. 6. _To be carnally_] The quintessence of the flesh's wittiness, or rather wickedness, φρονημα ....
_For_ Or rather, _now; they that are after the flesh_ The apostle having, Romans 8:1, described those to whom _there is no condemnation_, as persons _who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit...
TO BE CARNALLY MINDED; the same as to mind the things of the flesh, as verse Romans 8:5. So, to be spiritually minded, is the same as to mind the things of the Spirit. IS DEATH; spiritual death, and...
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 decidedly...
Now - present tense no condemnation - conditional walk- multiple choice a] after Spirit b] after flesh 2 Two laws - Spirit of life, Sin and death 3 The law - (of sin and death) weak in the flesh Go...
TO BE CARNALLY MINDED: _ Gr._ the minding of the flesh TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED: _ Gr._ the minding of the spirit...
FOR THE MIND OF THE FLESH IS DEATH; BUT THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT IS LIFE AND PEACE: "MIND OF THE FLESH" -'to set the mind on the flesh' (Nor). Fleshy thinking and striving (Vincent p. 90) The person who...
1-9 Believers may be chastened of the Lord, but will not be condemned with the world. By their union with Christ through faith, they are thus secured. What is the principle of their walk; the flesh o...
In this verse we have an account of the different end of those that are carnal and spiritual, as in the former we had a description of their different carriage and disposition. FOR TO BE CARNALLY MIND...
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace [Those who give themselves up to carnality, so that their minds take that general view of the affairs of life, shall re...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Animal men, again, are instructed in animal things; such men, namely, as are established by their works, and by a mere faith, while they have not perfect knowledge. W...
Romans 8:6 For G1063 be G5427 carnally G4561 minded G5427 death G2288 but G1161 be G5427 spiritually G4151 minded...
‘For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,' The consequence of having ‘the mind of the flesh' is death. If we set our minds on fleshly things we will reap our r...
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 after...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
1. _The Life in the Spirit contrasted with the Life after the Flesh._ The Christian is free from condemnation (Romans 8:1), because he is freed from the law of sin (Romans 8:2), a result which the law...
Romans 8:6. FOR THE MIND OF THE FLESH. Explanation of Romans 8:5. The word ‘mind' corresponds with the verb ‘mind' in the last verse; it is that which embodies the thinking, caring, striving; the disp...
THE MIND (το φρονημα). The bent or will of the flesh is death as shown in Romans 7:7-24.LIFE (ζωη). In contrast with "death."PEACE (ειρηνη). As seen in Romans 5:1-5....
Romans 8:1 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, or the...
The words we are about to read follow a passage in which the Apostle describes the conflict of his soul. It is rather singular that it should be so. To catch the contrast, let us just begin at the en...
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 condemn...
This wonderful chapter is the very cream of the cream of Holy Scripture. What a grand key-note the apostle strikes in the first verse! Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them whic...
This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which...
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._ To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is that...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
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._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
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 e...
TO HAVE YOUR MIND CONTROLLED. Compare what Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, and see note there. Allowing our human nature to make us its slave, brings death. Allowing the Spirit to make us his "slave" brin...
_For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh._ DESCRIPTION OF REGENERATE AND UNREGENERATE The word “flesh” is here to be taken not in the natural sense, but in the moral; and th...
_For to be carnally minded is death._ THE CARNAL AND THE SPIRITUAL MIND I. The carnal mind. 1. The disposition. (1) The expression is an abstract one. The apostle touches a principle which he find...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:6 TO SET THE MIND ON THE FLESH means to constantly desire the things that express fallen, sinful human nature. ⇐...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:1 Paul celebrates the new life of the Spirit that Christians enjoy as a result of Christ’s saving work. ⇐...
_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 (φρόνημα τῆς σ...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_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 referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
Galatians 5:22; Galatians 6:8; James 1:14; James 1:15; John 14:27;...
In the plural, used of spiritual gifts or of those who profess to be under spiritual influence, 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 14:12....
For to be carnally minded — That is, to mind the things of the flesh. Is death — The sure mark of spiritual death, and the way to death everlasting. But to be spiritually minded — That is, to mind the...
In the former verse we had. description of those that are carnal, and them that are spiritual. In this verse we have the end of the one, and the issue of the other; the end of the one is death, the is...