22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Wherefore we henceforth know no one according to the flesh: and if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we thus know Him no more.

But put on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the flesh to gratify its irregular desires.

And they, that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with it's passions and desires.

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

That is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.

For though we are in the flesh, we do not carry on our war according to the flesh:

For our conflict is not with flesh and blood only, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the world and of the darkness of this age, against wicked spirits in heavenly places.

nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh;

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

but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.

for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

If any one seem to be a prophet, or acted by the Spirit, let him acknowlege that what I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the desire of the flesh:

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

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision not performed by hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision which is of Christ:

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

But Christ being come an high-priest of the good things to come, hath entered once for all into the holy places, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this building,

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