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Romans 8:7
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Romans 8:7
7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
7Because †the carnall minde is enmitie against God: for it is not subiect to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
- Gr. the minding of the flesh.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 8:7
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Pertaining to flesh; fleshly or sensual rather than spiritual; in Hebrews 9:10, pertaining to outward ordinances imposed on the body.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The thought, disposition, intention, or will expressed in the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Hostility, hatred, ill will, or the state of being an enemy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Under the authority, power, control, rule, or obedience of the person or power named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In truth, in fact, or certainly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study14But 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.
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Open the full verse study15Love 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.
16For 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.
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Open the full verse study4Ye 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.
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Open the full verse study18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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Open the full verse study4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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Open the full verse study21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
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Open the full verse study10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
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Open the full verse study22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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Open the full verse study4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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Open the full verse study10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
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Open the full verse study28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
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Open the full verse study7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
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Open the full verse study34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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Open the full verse study30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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Open the full verse study31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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Open the full verse study7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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Open the full verse study2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.
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Open the full verse study14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
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Open the full verse study22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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Open the full verse study23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
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Open the full verse study19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Open the full verse study23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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Open the full verse study1THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
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Open the full verse study5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
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Open the full verse study21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
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