18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I could wish that I myself were accursed -- cut off from Christ -- for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.

Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for 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.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord --

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

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

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.