18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?
of whom are the fathers, and from whom as respecting the flesh Christ sprung, who is over all, the blessed God for evermore. Amen.
They have been so pleased indeed, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been admitted to a participation in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.
For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many fleshly wise, not many men in power, not many men of high birth, are called:
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your corporal things?
Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man wear long flowing hair it is a dishonour 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 which is spiritual was not first, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.
THEN also the first tabernacle had indeed regulations for the divine service, and a sanctuary furnished.
Remember those who are in chains, as in chains with them; and those who are suffering afflictions, as being yourselves also in the body.
Therefore we have always confidence, and know that whilst we are indwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.
Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so is it now.
The Spirit is the life-giving power; the flesh contributeth nothing: the declarations which I make to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
