18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour 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 one.

But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.

Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

But he that was of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he that was of the free woman through the promise.

But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him that was born according to Spirit, so also it is now.

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

It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.