Cross references

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Romans 8:7 BSB

Romans 8:7 has 25 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 21 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Corinthians 2:14 (35 votes) and 1 John 2:15–16 (21 votes). 61 other verses point back to it. It links with 28 other books, from Genesis 6 to 1 John 3.

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Which verses does Romans 8:7 point to?

The 20 strongest of 25, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  2. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

  3. James 4:419 votes

    You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

  4. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

  5. Romans 7:2212 votes

    For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

  6. Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

  7. traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

  8. Hebrews 8:1012 votes

    For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

  9. Romans 8:410 votes

    so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  10. For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

  11. John 7:77 votes
  12. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Which verses point to Romans 8:7?

The 10 strongest of 61.