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Romans 8:7 (WEB)
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Fathers and councils · 11

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions IX.13Book IX
“But,—my heart being now healed of that wound, in so far as it could be convicted of a carnal affection,—I pour out unto Thee, O our God, on behalf of that Thine handmaid, tears of a far different sort, even that which flows from a spirit broken by the thoughts of the dangers of every soul that dieth in Adam.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 74
“But He said that the world could not receive the Holy Spirit, in much the same sense as it is also said, “The minding of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; neither indeed can be;” just as if we were to say, Unrighteousness cannot be righteous.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7, marg.
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Origen, De Principiis III.5Book III
“If, then, it is written, that “carnal wisdom is enmity against God,” and if this be declared to be a result of creation, God Himself will appear to have formed a nature hostile to Himself, which cannot be subject to Him nor to His law, as if it were (supposed to be) an animal of which such qualities are predicated.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith V.14Book V
“For formerly, as the Apostle himself has said, the wisdom of the flesh was at enmity with God, for “it was not made subject to the law,” but now it is made subject through the Passion of Christ.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 18
““For the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither can it be.” ( Rom. viii. 7.)” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 23
“In which sense Paul also said, “The carnal mind is death; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 6, 7. [R.V., “For the mind of the flesh,” etc. The translator has not rendered γρ, which occurs in the Greek of the Homily, as in Rom. viii. 6.—R.]
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 17
“Moreover, he has affirmed the “sense of the flesh” to be “death;” hence too, “enmity,” and enmity toward God; and that “they who are in the flesh,” that is, in the sense of the flesh, “cannot please God:” and, “If ye live according to flesh,” he says, “it will come to pass that ye die.”” — editor's note: Ver. 7.
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Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46
“In like manner, he called “the carnal mind” first “death,” and afterwards “enmity against God;” but he never predicated this of the flesh itself.” — editor's note: Ver. 7.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.13Book V
“…to our aid; for, while explaining in what sense he would not have us “live in the flesh,” although in the flesh—even by not living in the works of the flesh—he shows that when he wrote the words, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,” it was not with the view of condemning the substance (of the…” — editor's note: See Rom. viii. 5–13.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
“…subjungit dicens: “Non enim accepistis spiritum servitutis rursus in timorein, sed accepistis spiritum adoptionis filiorum, in quo clamamus, Abba Pater;” hoc est, ad hoc accepimus, ut cognoscamus eum, quem oramus, qui est vere Pater, qui rerum omnium solus est Pater, qui ad salutem erudit et castigat at pater,…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.6Book IV
“And whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30.
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