18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen;

But a natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

If we sowed for you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?

Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to 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.

And the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

Verily, therefore, the first covenant used to have ordinances of divine service, and the sanctuary pertaining to the world.

Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord

I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer am I living, but Christ is living in me; and, in so far as I am now living in flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

But the one by the bond-woman has been born after the flesh; and the one by the free-woman, through promise.

But, just as then, the one born after the flesh kept persecuting him born after the Spirit, so also is it now.

Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will glory;

It is the Spirit That giveth life; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.