18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure; and they are in their debt. For if the Gentiles have had a part in the things of the Spirit which were theirs, it is right for them, in the same way, to give them help in the things of the flesh.

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.

Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.