Romans 8:5 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on Romans 8:5

“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.” Yet even this is no disparaging of the flesh. For so long as it keeps its own place, nothing amiss comes to pass. But when we let it have its own will in everything, and it passes over its proper bounds, and rises up against the soul, then it destroys and corrupts everything, yet not owing to its own nature, but to its being out of proportion, and the disorder thereupon ensuing. “But they that are after the…