Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

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 to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

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;

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.

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.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
διότι 
Dioti 
Usage: 18

the carnal
σάρξ 
Sarx 
Usage: 130

φρόνημα 
Phronema 
Usage: 4

is enmity
ἔχθρα 
Echthra 
Usage: 6

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

it is
ὑποτάσσω 
Hupotasso 
Usage: 39

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ὑποτάσσω 
Hupotasso 
Usage: 39

to the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

οὐδέ 
Oude 
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
Usage: 83

γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

Context Readings

Set Free From The Law Of Sin And Death

6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Cross References

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, know you 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.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath came upon you from the LORD.

Psalm 53:1

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to doing evil.

Matthew 5:19

Whosoever 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.

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

John 15:23-24

He that hates me hates my Father also.

Romans 1:28

And 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 proper;

Romans 1:30

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Romans 3:31

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish 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, we shall be saved by his life.

Romans 7:7-14

What 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, you shall not covet.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Romans 8:4

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Ephesians 4:18-19

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Colossians 1:21

And you, that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled

2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says 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:

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

1 John 2:15-16

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your 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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