Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 8:6

"For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:" — Romans 8:6 (ASV)

For to be carnally minded

To have the mind of the flesh.

Is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Flesh must die. Its tendency is to corruption; but the spirit never dies. Its tendency, its instinct, is growth, advance, immortality.

For to be carnally minded—

To be fleshly minded

is death;

That is what it comes to, for the flesh comes to death at last; and, after death, it goes to corruption. If we live after that carnal fashion, this will be the end of our living: "death."

But to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

For the spirit will never die, and the spirit has that within it which will bring it perfect peace.