22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh--

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.

If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Brothers,if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.