22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

From now on we know no man according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.

Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.

God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.

But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as seed.

We are those with true circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God. We glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

He is not a Jew who is one on the outside. Neither is circumcision that which is on the outside in the flesh.

My inner person delights in the law of God.

However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.

for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Brothers, if someone is caught in any kind of wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should set him right. But you must do it in a gentle way. And keep an eye on yourselves, so that you will not be tempted, too.

You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you got rid of the old self with its evil practices.

Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that is not made by humans and does not belong to this creation.

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).