24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)

For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life:

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

Ye judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.

So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

Though I have my trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:

Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?

but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ.

Wherefore remember that ye, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand;

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

These are they who set themselves apart, natural men, not having the Spirit.