Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
The carnal mind
For it
General references
Bible References
The carnal mind
Romans 1:28
And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming;
Romans 5:10
For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
John 15:23
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
Ephesians 4:18
darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:
Colossians 1:21
And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,
2 Timothy 3:4
treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For it
Romans 8:4
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled by us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 3:31
Do we then abolish the law through faith? God forbid: but on the contrary, we give the law stability.
Romans 7:7
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so, he shall be accounted the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall practise, and teach them, he shall be reckoned great in the kingdom of heaven.
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; giving my laws to their understanding, even on their hearts will I inscribe them: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
Neither
Matthew 12:34
Ye broods of vipers, how can ye speak good things, yourselves being wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:
General references
Matthew 22:37
Then Jesus said to him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."