18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.

for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?

doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual.

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;

but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;