24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material
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For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;
Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.
for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.
whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.
for he that sows for his flesh, shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows for the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.
Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.
Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.
although I have ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the flesh, I [may] more;
Wishing this therefore, did I use lightness? or what I wish do I wish according to the flesh, that with me there may be the yes, yes, and the no, no?
and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth, called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by the hand,
Let no one wishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of angels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,
for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,
And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.
but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,
For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,
These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
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