Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.
New American Standard Bible
because the mind set on the flesh is
King James Version
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Holman Bible
For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile
International Standard Version
That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.
A Conservative Version
Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.
American Standard Version
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:
Amplified
the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,
An Understandable Version
This is because the one whose mind is [controlled] by the flesh is an enemy of God; for he is not obedient to God's law, and in fact, cannot obey it.
Anderson New Testament
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.
Bible in Basic English
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
Common New Testament
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;
Darby Translation
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:
Godbey New Testament
Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.
Goodspeed New Testament
For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.
John Wesley New Testament
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.
King James 2000
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],
Modern King James verseion
because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be.
Moffatt New Testament
For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).
Montgomery New Testament
For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;
NET Bible
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
New Heart English Bible
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
Noyes New Testament
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.
Sawyer New Testament
Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.
The Emphasized Bible
Inasmuch as, what is preferred by the flesh, is hostile towards God, for, unto the law of God, it doth not submit itself, neither in fact can it. -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.
Twentieth Century New Testament
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.
Webster
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Weymouth New Testament
Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.
Williams New Testament
Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.
World English Bible
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
Worrell New Testament
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;
Worsley New Testament
because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:
Youngs Literal Translation
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Hostile to God
Character of the wicked » Hostile to God
Enmity » What is enmity against God
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Depraved in mind
Flesh » Those that walk after the flesh
Heart » The unregenerate » Is sensual
character of the unrenewed Heart » Carnal
The law of God » Man, by nature, not in subjection to
Mind » Carnal, general references to
Interlinear
Hupotasso
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 8:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Set Free From The Law Of Sin And Death
6 now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity. 7 because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be. 8 so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you,
Cross References
James 4:4
Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Matthew 5:19
whoever therefore shall break any commandment, tho' of the least importance, and shall teach men so to do, shall not have the least admittance into the kingdom of the Messias: but whoever shall do and teach them, he shall be great in the kingdom of the Messias.
Matthew 12:34
O degenerate race, how can ye, wicked as ye are, utter any thing that is good? for "'tis the overflowing of the heart that the mouth dischargeth."
John 7:7
the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil.
John 15:23-24
he that hateth me, hateth my father also.
Romans 1:28
As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;
Romans 1:30
whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,
Romans 3:31
do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.
Romans 5:10
for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 7:7-14
Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."
Romans 7:22
for my mind takes delight in the law of God,
Romans 8:4
so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.
Galatians 5:22-23
but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:
Ephesians 4:18-19
which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:
Colossians 1:21
You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,
2 Timothy 3:4
cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:
Hebrews 8:10
but this is the alliance 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: I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Peter 2:14
their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant. their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,
1 John 2:15-16
Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.