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Aug 7, 2025 2:30 AM

  Romans 8:6-8 In-Context

  4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

  6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

  7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

  8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

  9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

  10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives lifeOr "you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive" because of righteousness.

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