21 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

So that from henceforth we know no man after the flesh; and if we have known Christ after the flesh, we now know him no more.

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

We are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and trust not in the flesh,

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

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision.

for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the Lord's;

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are spiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering yourself; lest you also be tried.

in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings,

But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.