18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen.

They are descended from the Patriarchs; and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ-he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen.

Yes, they were glad to do so; and indeed it is a duty which they owe to them. For the Gentile converts who have shared their spiritual blessings are in duty bound to minister to them in the things of this world.

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.

And so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master's Cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.

Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?

Does not nature herself teach us that, while for a man to wear his hair long is degrading to him,

As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body.

That which comes first is not the spiritual, but the human; afterwards comes the spiritual;

It is true that even the first Covenant had its regulations for divine worship, and its Sanctuary--though only a material one.

Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.

I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise.

Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now.

As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast.

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.