Romans 8:8

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Romans 8:8

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

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Romans 8:9

Romans 7:5

John 3:3

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But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."

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And behold, [there was] a voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

By faith Enoch was taken up, so that he did not experience death, and he was not found, because God took him up. For before his removal, he had been approved {as having been pleasing} to God.

And do not neglect doing good and generosity, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.