22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.

We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.