22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material
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So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.
and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ -- this one is not His;
that is, the children of the flesh -- these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,
because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.
for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;
we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
in whom also ye were 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 the Christ,
And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --
no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
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