16 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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For I would pray, that I myself might be an offering from Christ; in behalf of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh:
of whom are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh. Who is over all, God blessed forever: amen.
For they were pleased to do so; and they are their debtors: for if the Gentiles participated in spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.
For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many influential, not many high-born:
But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man may indeed have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
It is sown a psychical body; it is raised a pneumatical body. If there is a psychical body, there is also a pneumatical (body).
But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is animal; afterward that which is spiritual.
Then indeed the first tabernacle also, had ordinances of service, and a sanctuary for this world.
Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body.
Therefore we are always confident even knowing that, being present in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
I am crucified along with Christ; and I live no longer, 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.
The Spirit is the One who creates life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and life.
