18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
Most Relevant Verses
For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh:
whose also are the fathers, and they of whom; as concerning the flesh; Christ came: which is God over all things, blessed forever. Amen.
It hath pleased them verily, and their debtors are they. For if the gentiles be made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is to minister unto them in carnal things.
Brethren, look on your calling how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of high degree are called:
For the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are but foolishness unto him: Neither can he perceive them, because he is spiritually examined.
There is difference between a virgin and a wife. The single woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be pure both in body and also in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
If we sow unto you spiritual things: is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?
Or else doth not nature teach you, that it is a shame for a man, if he have long hair:
It is sown a natural body, and riseth a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.
Howbeit, that is not first which is spiritual: but that which is natural, and then that which is spiritual.
That first tabernacle verily had ordinances and servings of God, and worldly holiness.
Remember them that are in bonds, even as though ye were bound with them. Be mindful of them which are in adversity, as ye which are yet in your bodies.
Therefore, we are always of good cheer, and know well that as long as we are at home in the body we are absent from God.
I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.
Yea, and he which was of the bondwoman, was born after the flesh: but he which was of the freewoman, was born by promise.
But as then he that was born carnally, persecuted him that was born spiritually; Even so is it now.
It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you are spirit and life.
