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So then; this verse is a consectary, or it follows from that which went before.
They that are in the flesh; not they which are married, as a pope once expounded it; the next verse refels such an absurd conception; but they that are carnal and unregenerate; the same with those who, in Rom_8:5, are said to be after the flesh.
Cannot please God; neither they, nor any thing they do, is pleasing unto him; their best works are dead works, and silken sins (as one expresseth it): it must be understood with this limitation, so long as they continue in such a state: see Psa_5:4,5 Heb 11:6.