22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Wherefore henceforth we know no man according to the flesh: though indeed we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now henceforth we know him no more.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the lusts of flesh.

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.

That the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Now if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

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

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:

But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

If any man thinketh 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 confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.