but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.

Look at the physical nation of Israel; do not their people [i.e., the priests] who eat the [animal] sacrifices have fellowship [with God] in the Altar [service]?

So, what am I saying? That an animal sacrificed to idols is [really] anything, or that an idol [itself] is anything?

it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body. there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

but the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.