24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

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

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

'Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

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

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

though I also have cause of trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

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

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.