Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
So then they that are in the flesh,.... They that are in the flesh are the same who are said to be after it, Rom 8:5, and are there described. Such cannot please God; men, whilst unregenerate, and as such, cannot please God; for though the persons of God's elect are wellpleasing to him always, as considered in Christ, in whom they are loved with...
This is the triumph after that melancholy conflict in the foregoing chapter: sin remaining, but blessed be God, not ruining. I do not say there is no accusation against us, but the indictment is quashed; not that nothing in us deserves condemnation, but that it shall not be our ruin. We are in Christ Jesus as in our city of refuge, and through His satisfaction to the law, God is well pleased with us.
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Commenting on Romans 8:1-9
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (10) The conclusion. Therefore they that walk after the flesh cannot please God: by which it follows that they are not grafted into Christ.