24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

You judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reasons he might trust in the flesh, I more:

When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, though I think to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Therefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For the time past of our life will suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, excess of wine, reveling, carousing, and abominable idolatries:

For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of the glorious ones.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.