24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

They that are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Now to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace:

whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame;

For he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

Ye judge after the flesh: I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is valid; for I am not alone:

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day,

Now when I was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that there should be with me yea and nay?

I beseech, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold toward some, who think of us as walking after the flesh:

Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised: only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh (who were called the uncircumcision, by that which is called the circumcision made with hands in the flesh) Were at that time without Christ,

Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

For Demas hath forsaken me, loving the present world, and is gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,

For the time past of your life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, evil desires, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

For to this end was the gospel preached to them that are dead also, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: presumptuous, self-willed; they are not afraid to rail at dignities:

For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit.