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 brethren, my kinsmen after the flesh:
Whose are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is, over all, God, blessed for ever.
It hath pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have partook of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in carnal things.
Behold your calling brethren: that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit: but the married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?
Doth not nature itself teach you, that for a man to have long hair, is a disgrace to him?
It is sown an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.
And verily the first covenant also had ordinances of worship and a worldly sanctuary.
Remember them that are in bonds, as being bound with them, and them that suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Therefore we always behave undauntedly; knowing that while we are sojourning in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
I am crucified with Christ, and I live no longer, but Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
And he of the bond-woman was born after the flesh, but he of the free-woman by promise.
But as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so it is now also.
It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken, they are spirit and they are life.
