22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not 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 a 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 don't wage war according to the flesh;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly 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 God's law after the inward man,

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

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

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

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

Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.