18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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for I could wish my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;
to whom belong the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, as it respects the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
they have been pleased to do so, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in things pertaining to the flesh.
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;
But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?
Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.
But that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.
Now, the first covenant also had ordinances of worship, and the worldly sanctuary:
Remember those who are in bonds, as if you yourselves had been bound, and those who suffer affliction, since you yourselves are in the body.
Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.
But as then, he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born ac cording to the Spirit, so even now.
It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.
