18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen.

For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:

And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?

Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body.

But the first not spiritual, but animated; then the spiritual.

And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place.

Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.

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

I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise.

But as then he born according to the flesh drove out him according to the Spirit, so also now.

Since many boast according to the flesh, I shall also boast.

It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life.