18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,

[to] whom [belong] the patriarchs, and from whom [is] the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed {forever}! Amen.

For they were pleased [to do so], and they are obligated to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual [things], they ought also to serve them in material [things].

For consider your calling, brothers, that not many [were] wise according to human standards, not many [were] powerful, not many [were] well born.

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?

And does not nature itself teach you that a man, if he wears 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].

But the spiritual [is] not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

Now the first [covenant] had regulations for worship and the earthly sanctuary.

Remember the prisoners, as [though you were] fellow-prisoners; [remember] the mistreated, as [though] [you] yourselves also are being [mistreated] in the body.

Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [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 one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise,

But just as at that time the [child] born according to human descent persecuted the [child born] according to the Spirit, so also now.

Since many are boasting according to human standards, I also will boast.

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