18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my own people,
To the Israelis belong the patriarchs, and from them, the Messiah descended, who is God over all, the one who is forever blessed. Amen.
Yes, they were eager to do this, and in fact they are obligated to help them, for if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to be of service to them in material things.
Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair
It is planted a physical body but is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
The spiritual does not come first, but the physical does, and then comes the spiritual.
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them, as well as those who are mistreated, since they also are only mortal.
Therefore, we are always confident, and we know that as long as we are at home in this body we are away from the Lord.
I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Now the slave woman's son was conceived through human means, while the free woman's son was conceived through divine promise.
But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.
It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.
