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Selected Verse: Romans 8:8 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Ro 8:8 Strong Concordance So then [1161] they that are [5607] in [1722] the flesh [4561] cannot [3756] [1410] please [700] God [2316].
  King James So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
So then--nearly equivalent to "And so."

they that are in--and, therefore, under the government of

the flesh cannot please God--having no obediential principle, no desire to please Him.
 
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18 For [1063] I know [1492] that [3754] in [1722] me [1698] (that is [5123], in [1722] my [3450] flesh [4561],) dwelleth [3611] no [3756] good thing [18]: for [1063] to will [2309] is present [3873] with me [3427]; but [1161] how to perform [2716] that which is good [2570] I find [2147] not [3756].