Romans 8:5. For they, etc. In chap. 7 the contrast was between the workings of the law and the flesh in the same person; in Romans 8:5-8 the Apostle contrasts two classes of persons; snowing why the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in one class, and cannot be in the other.

That are cording to the flesh. The same idea as in Romans 8:4, but under a slightly different aspect: walking according to the flesh pointing to the outward life; being according to the flesh, to the carnal state.

Mind the things of the flesh; they think of, care for, strive to obtain, those things which belong to the ‘flesh,' which includes all that gratifies the depraved heart; ‘not merely sensual things, but all things which do not belong to the category of the things of the Spirit' (Hodge).

The things of the Spirit, those things which belong to the Holy Spirit.

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