24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to 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 it 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, those who mind earthly things.)

For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.

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

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

You judge after the flesh, I judge no one.

Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.

though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.

Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?

But I ask, not being present, that I may be bold with the confidence which I think to be daring against some, who thought of us as walking according to flesh.

For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not use the liberty for an opening to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

As many as desire to look well in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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

Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

These are those setting themselves apart, animal-like ones, not having the Spirit.