22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

So that we from now know no man after the flesh: if indeed we have known Christ after the flesh, but we now know him no more.

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

But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.

in order that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to depravity, but according to the spirit.

But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

that is the children of the flesh the same are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, also having no confidence in the flesh:

For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;

because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outwardly in the flesh.

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man;

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.

A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

If any one seems to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him understand the things which I write to you, that they are of the Lord;

but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

And I say, Walk about in the Spirit, and do not perfect the lust of carnality.

Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted.

in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ;

lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits,

But Christ being a high priest of good things to come, through a greater and a more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this world;

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.