21 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

So from that time on, I have estimated nobody at what he seemed to be outwardly; even though I once estimated Christ in that way, I no longer do so.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.

We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,

For though I do live an earthly life, I am not carrying on an earthly war,

For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not something physical and external.

My inner nature agrees with the divine law,

but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

If anyone claims to be inspired to preach, or to have any other spiritual endowment, let him understand that what I am now writing you is a command from the Lord.

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

But if a man is caught doing something wrong, brothers, you are spiritual, and you must set him right, in a spirit of gentleness. Think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.