18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;
whose are the fathers, and of whom, as to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever. Amen.
It pleased them, I say, and they are indeed their debtors; for if the Gentiles have partook of their spiritual things, they ought also to be helpful to them in carnal ones.
For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin: she, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she, that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how she may please her husband.
If we then have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him?
it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body: for there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.
Therefore the first covenant had also rites of worship and a worldly sanctuary.
Remember those that are in bonds, as if bound with them: and those that suffer evil as being yourselves also in the body.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we dwell in the body, we are absent from the Lord,
I am crucified with Christ; yet I live, though no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave up himself for me.
But he who was of the servant, was born according to the course of nature; whereas the son of the free-woman was by virtue of the promise.
But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
The spirit is the principle of life, the flesh availeth nothing: now the words that I speak unto you are spirit, and therefore life.
