22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

So that, we, henceforth, know, no one, after the flesh: if we have even been gaining, after the flesh, a knowledge of Christ,

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and, for the flesh, take not forethought to fulfil its covetings.

And, they who are of Christ Jesus, have crucified, the flesh, with its susceptibilities and covetings.

In order that, the righteous requirement of the law, might be fulfilled in us - who, not according to flesh, do walk, but according to spirit;

But, ye, have not your being in flesh, but in spirit, - if at least, God's Spirit, dwelleth in you; and, if anyone hath not Christ's Spirit, the same, is not his; -

That is - not the children of the flesh, the same are children of God; but, the children of the promise, are reckoned as a seed.

For, we, are the circumcision, who in the Spirit of God, are doing divine service, and are boasting in Christ Jesus, and, not in flesh, having confidence, -

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

Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.

For, not he who is one in appearance, is a Jew, nor is, that which is such in appearance in flesh, circumcision;

I have, in fact, a sympathetic pleasure in the law of God; according to the inner man.

But I behold a diverse law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin which existeth in my members: -

For, if according to flesh ye live, ye are about to die, whereas, if in spirit, the practices of the flesh, ye are putting to death, ye shall attain unto life;

And he is divided; and, the unmarried woman, or the virgin, is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy bothin her body and in her spirit; but, she that hath married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If anyone thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge the things which I am writing to you, - that they are, a commandment, of the Lord.

We have good courage, however, and are well pleased - rather to be away from home, out of the body, and to come home, unto the Lord.

I say, moreover - by Spirit, be walking, and, fleshly coveting, ye will in nowise fulfil;

Brethren! if a man should even be overtaken in any fault, ye, the spiritual, be restoring such a one, in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself, lest, even thou, be put to the test.

In whom, ye have also been circumcised with a circumcision not done by hand, in the despoiling of the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ, -

Be not guilty of falsehood one to another: having stript off the old man, together with his practices,

But, when Christ approached, as high-priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made by hand, that is, not of this creation, -

To the end that, no longer, in men's covetings, but in God's will, ye may live, the still remaining time.