Romans 8:7 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁷ Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.

¹⁹ Whoever, therefore, breaks one of these commandments, even the least of them, and teaches others to do so, will be the least- esteemed in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever keeps them, and teaches others to do so, will be esteemed great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

³⁴ You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁸ Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.

³⁰ They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.

³¹ Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.

¹⁰ For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, shall we be saved by virtue of Christ's Life.

⁷ What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet. ⁸ But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life. ⁹ There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died! ¹⁰ The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death! ¹¹ Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death. ¹² And so the Law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve Death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved Death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my Death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the Commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is. ¹⁴ We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly-sold into slavery to Sin.

²² At heart I delight in the Law of God;

⁴ So that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.

¹⁴ The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.

²¹ To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law.

²² But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control. ²³ Against such things there is no law!

¹⁸ With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts. ¹⁹ Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.

²¹ And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness--

⁴ treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;

¹⁰ "This is the Covenant that I will make with the People of Israel After those days," says the Lord. "I will impress my laws on their minds, and will inscribe them on their hearts; And I will be their God, and they shall be my People.

⁴ Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

¹⁴ They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse. ¹⁵ Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him; ¹⁶ for all that the world can offer--the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life--belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.