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 brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it 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 calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.

If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for 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.

But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

So we are always of good courage. 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 of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

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

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

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.