Romans 8:7-11

Romans 8:7-11,” ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

Paraphrase:

The carnal mind in its awareness of judgment of the self-imposed law in the heart, whose conscience is defiled, is not able to partake of the life of the Spirit. It is limited and blinded because of its ignorance of liberating truth and hardness of heart. Therefore, it is not in the Spirit by faith. In enmity, it separates itself from God’s life in His Son. It cannot please the Father by faith. God dwells, lives, resides, abides in us by the revelation of His Son according to hearing the Word of truth. If Christ is in me, the body is dead to the power of sin, but in the Spirit there is life because of His righteousness by faith and grace. If Christ dwells in me, the Father will also give life to my flesh and its members to exercise righteousness by His abiding Spirit in me.