18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

The body sown is animal The body is raised is spiritual. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body.

Now it is not the spiritual which is first, but the animal, and then the spiritual.

Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now.

Since so many are making worldly boasts, I shall boast, too!

"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.