18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
Most Relevant Verses
I could wish that I were accursed (separated) (banned) (excommunicated) from Christ for the good of (in behalf of) my countrymen and brothers (the Jews).
The forefathers belong to them from whom came the Christ according to the flesh. God who is over all is blessed forever. Amen.
It pleased them to do so and they are debtors for this. If the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in physical things.
Consider your calling, brothers. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if men have long hair, it is a shame?
It is sown a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.
How is it the first is not spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
The first covenant had ordinances for divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.
We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.
How is it that the son by the slave woman is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise?
Just like then, the son who was conceived in a natural way according to the flesh persecuted the son conceived in a spiritual way. That is exactly what is happening now!
Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.
It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.
