22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man??ven if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and make our boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in outward rites,

Though I do walk on the low level of the flesh, I do not make war as the flesh does;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

If any one thinks himself a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that what I am now writing you is a command of the Lord.

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ's own circumcision,

Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings,

But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.