24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

People who are controlled by the physical think of what is physical, and people who are controlled by the spiritual think of what is spiritual.

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.

For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace.

They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

You judge by material standards, but I am judging nobody.

So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control,

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

though I at least am entitled to rely on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on his physical advantages, still more can I!

Was it vacillating of me to want to do that? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say "Yes" and "No" in the same breath?

I beg you not to make me take as bold an attitude when I come, as I count on taking toward some people who suspect me of acting from worldly motives.

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised want to present a good appearance externally, to save themselves from having to stand persecution for the cross of Jesus the Christ.

So remember that you were once physically heathen, and called uncircumcised by those who called themselves circumcised, though only physically, by human hands.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead also, that though they are judged in their physical nature as men are, they may yet live, like God, in the Spirit.

especially those who yield to their physical nature and indulge in passions that defile them, and despise authority. Rash, headstrong men! They stand in no awe of majesty, but deride beings

They utter arrogant nonsense and use physical cravings to lure into immorality men who are just escaping from among those who live in error;

These are the men who create division; they are animal and devoid of the Spirit.