24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit.

For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

You judge by the outside. I judge no one;

Well then, my brothers, we owe a duty ??but it is not to the flesh! It is not to live by the flesh!

But I could not discuss things with you, my brothers, as spiritual persons; I had to address you as worldlings, as mere babes in Christ.

Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.

Such was my intention. Now, have I shown myself 'fickle'? When I propose some plan, do I propose it in a worldly way, ready to mean 'no' as well as 'yes'?

I beg of you that when I do come I may not have to speak out and be peremptory; but my mind is made up to tackle certain people who have made up their minds that I move on the low level of the flesh.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh ??12 remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

These are the people who set up divisions and distinctions, sensuous creatures, destitute of the Spirit.