A moment in scripture
Romans 8:4
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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The surrounding passage
- Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
- Romans 8:5
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
- Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.