24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For those that are according to the flesh know the things that are of the flesh; but those that are according to the Spirit, the things that are of the Spirit.

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

For the prudence of the flesh is death, but the prudence of the Spirit, life and peace,

whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).

For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows in the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

Flee fornication. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if through the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Ye judge after the flesh, but I judge no one.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Though I might also have reason to confide in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

When I, therefore, was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that of me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?

but I beseech you that I need not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I am esteemed to use against some who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by charity serve one another.

As many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of the Christ.

Therefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who were called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh, which is made by hands,

Let no one govern you according to their own will under pretext of humility and religion of angels, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind,

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from the carnal desires which war against the soul

For it should suffice us that during the time past of our life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries.

Because for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead, that they might be judged in flesh according to men, but live in spirit according to God.

and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;

For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from those who converse in error,

These are those who make divisions, and are as animals, not having the Spirit.