18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world -- how she may please her husband.
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
