17 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;

the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)

Such was their decision; and yet this is a debt they owe to these people, for if the Gentiles have shared their spiritual blessings, they owe them a debt of aid in material blessings.

Why, look at your own ranks, my brothers; not many wise men (that is, judged by human standards), not many leading men, not many of good birth, have been called!

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods?

Surely nature herself teaches you that while long hair is disgraceful for a man,

sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body.

but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.

The first covenant had indeed its regulations for worship, and a material sanctuary.

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

Come what may, then, I am confident; I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord

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

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.

Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.)

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.