24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For those who are according to the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who are thinking of earthly things.

because he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.

for, if ye live according to the flesh, ye are going to die; but, if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no man.

Accordingly, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

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

though I might have confidence even in flesh; if any other man supposes that he has occasion for confidence in flesh, I more:

When, therefore, I was purposing this, did I manifest fickleness or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yea, yea," and the "Nay, nay?"

but I pray that, when present, I may not show courage with the confidence with which I purpose to be bold against some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh.

For ye were called to freedom, brethren; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve one another;

As many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Wherefore, remember that ye, the gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in flesh made by hand,

Let no one rob you of your prize, wishing to do it in humility and in a worshipping of angels, speculating about the things which he has seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

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

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;

For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

For to this end was the Gospel proclaimed even to the dead, that they might, indeed, be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

but especially those who walk after the flesh in a desire for pollution, and despise dominion; daring, self-willed, they tremble not, when railing at dignities;

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;

These are those who make separations; sensual, having not the Spirit.