18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

For they were pleased. And they are debtors of them, for if the gentiles were partakers in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to serve them in the carnal things.

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?

Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Nevertheless the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

Now indeed therefore the first had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

But in fact, the man from the servant girl was born according to flesh, but the man from the freewoman through promise.

But just as then, the man who was born according to flesh persecuted the man according to Spirit, so also now.

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

It is the spirit that makes alive. The flesh benefits nothing. The sayings that I speak to you are spirit, are life.