Verse of the Day

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Romans 8:6 NIV

The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.

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Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

English Standard Version

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

The Message

Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.

New King James Version

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

New Living Translation

If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace.

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Romans 8:1-9

(Read Romans 8:1-9)

Believers may be chastened of the Lord, but will not be condemned with the world. By their union with Christ through faith, they are thus secured. What is the principle of their walk; the flesh or the Spirit, the old or the new nature, corruption or grace? For which of these do we make provision, by which are we governed? The unrenewed will is unable to keep any commandment fully. And the law, besides outward duties, requires inward obedience. God showed abhorrence of sin by the sufferings of his Son in the flesh, that the believer's person might be pardoned and justified. Thus satisfaction was made to Divine justice, and the way of salvation opened for the sinner. By the Spirit the law of love is written upon the heart, and though the righteousness of the law is not fulfilled by us, yet, blessed be God, it is fulfilled in us; there is that in all true believers, which answers the intention of the law. The favour of God, the welfare of the soul, the concerns of eternity, are the things of the Spirit, which those that are after the Spirit do mind. Which way do our thoughts move with most pleasure? Which way go our plans and contrivances? Are we most wise for the world, or for our souls? Those that live in pleasure are dead, 1 Timothy 5:6. A sanctified soul is a living soul; and that life is peace. The carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself. The carnal man may, by the power of Divine grace, be made subject to the law of God, but the carnal mind never can; that must be broken and driven out. We may know our real state and character by inquiring whether we have the Spirit of God and Christ, or not, ver. 9. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Having the Spirit of Christ, means having a turn of mind in some degree like the mind that was in Christ Jesus, and is to be shown by a life and conversation suitable to his precepts and example.


Romans 8:6 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.


This Week's Daily Bible Verses

Monday, May 20

Matthew 9:22

Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

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Sunday, May 19

Psalm 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

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Saturday, May 18

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

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Friday, May 17

Proverbs 6:6-11

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest -- and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

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Thursday, May 16

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke impresses a man of discernment more than a hundred lashes a fool.

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Wednesday, May 15

James 1:21

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

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Tuesday, May 14

Psalm 32:10

Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.

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