Because (A)the [a]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, (B)nor indeed can be.

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  1. Romans 8:7 fleshly

[a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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  1. James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and

14 (A)But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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Do Not Love the World

15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, (C)the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

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18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the (A)blindness of their heart; 19 (B)who, being past feeling, (C)have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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22 For I (A)delight in the law of God according to (B)the inward man.

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10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the (A)Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and (B)I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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(A)traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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21 And you, (A)who once were alienated and enemies in your mind (B)by wicked works, yet now He has (C)reconciled

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14 having eyes full of [a]adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. (A)They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:14 Lit. an adulteress

Sin’s Advantage in the Law

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, (A)I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, (B)“You shall not covet.” But (C)sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For (D)apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, (E)which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore (F)the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Law Cannot Save from Sin

13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, (G)sold under sin.

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10 For (A)if when we were enemies (B)we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved (C)by His life.

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31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

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28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things (A)which are not fitting;

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(A)The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me (B)because I testify of it that its works are evil.

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19 (A)Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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And Jehu the son of Hanani (A)the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and (B)love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the (C)wrath of the Lord is upon you.

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that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who (A)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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23 (A)He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them (B)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have (C)seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

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34 (A)Brood[a] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? (B)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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  1. Matthew 12:34 Offspring

23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

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Folly of the Godless, and the Restoration of Israel(A)

To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath.” A [a]Contemplation of David.

53 The (B)fool has said in his heart,
There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity;
(C)There is none who does good.

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  1. Psalm 53:1 Heb. Maschil

22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, (C)goodness, (D)faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. (E)Against such there is no law.

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  1. Galatians 5:23 meekness

21 (A)to (B)those who are without law, as without law (C)(not being without [a]law toward God, but under [b]law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law;

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:21 NU God’s law
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:21 NU Christ’s law

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