18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
Most Relevant Verses
for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,
who are the offspring of the patriarchs, and of whom as to the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.
for consider, brethren, that not many worldly wise, not many men of power, not many men of birth are among you that are called.
but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.
if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?
does not settled custom show it is a shame for a man to have long hair?
it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body. there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.
but the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.
The first alliance then had rites of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
remember those that are in chains, as if you were confin'd with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being your selves of the same body.
therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord,
I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
he, who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the ordinary course of nature; but he, who was of the free-woman, was born by virtue of the promise.
but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now.
it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.
