22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

So, then, we henceforth know no man according to the flesh; if, indeed, we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer thus know him.

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now, if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

For, in the inward man, I delight in the law of God:

but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if, through the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If any one has the reputation of being a prophet, or spiritual man, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in any fault, do you, who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

in whom you have been also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds,

But Christ, having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, (that is, not of this building,)

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.