18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

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

Of them are the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, forever blessed. Amen.

They were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

But the 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 discerned.

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

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest 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; and then the spiritual.

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

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

Therefore we are always of good courage; and we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

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

But the son by the slave 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.

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

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