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, the things of the Spirit.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace;

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Flee sexual immorality. "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For if you live after the flesh, you must 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.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"

But I implore you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence with which I intend on showing against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For enough time in the past has been spent doing the will of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;

These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.