18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

They certainly were delighted to do it, and they really are under obligation to them, for if the heathen peoples have shared in their spiritual blessings, they ought to serve them in material blessings.

For consider, brothers, the way God called you; that not many of you, in accordance with human standards, were wise, not many influential, not many of high birth.

An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.

If we have sown the spiritual seed for you, is it too great for us to reap a material support from you?

Does not nature itself teach you that it is degrading for a man to wear long hair,

it is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body too.

But it is not the spiritual that comes first; it is the physical, and then the spiritual.

So indeed the first covenant had its regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Continue to remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and those who are being ill-treated, since you, too, are liable to similar physical punishment.

So I am always cheerful and confident, although I know that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from home and the Lord

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise.

But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born by the power of the Spirit, so it is today.

Since many boast in accordance with their human nature, I will do it too.

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.