18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Yes, they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.

Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

Since many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.