24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtorsnot to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ.

though I myself have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

When I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or do I make my plans in a fleshly manner so that in the same breath I say, "Yes, Yes" and "No, No"?

I beg you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands

Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

For this reason the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they might live in the spirit according to the will of God.

and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desire and despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones,

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.

These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.