“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. — The σαρκικὸς νοῦς (sarkikos nous, "carnal mind") is ἔχθρα (echthra, "enmity/hostility") toward God; it refuses ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō, "submit") to God's νόμος (nomos, "law"). The negation is double: it does not submit and δύναμαι (dynamai, "cannot") submit. This is anthropological: the flesh-dominated mind is incapable of submission. Only the Spirit breaks this bondage.
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