18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Whose are the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.
For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man hath long hair, it is a shame to him?
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
However, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth 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 he who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise.
But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
It is the spirit that reviveth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
