22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Wherefore from the present moment know we no man after the flesh: yea though we have also known Christ after the flesh, yet so henceforth know we him no more.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to gratify its passions.

But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites.

that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled by us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we war not after the flesh:

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

For not he who is outwardly such, is the Jew; neither is that which is outward in the flesh, circumcision.

For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:

but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

If any man thinketh that he is a prophet, or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

We are confident indeed, and with pleasure expect to go out from the body, and to dwell within with the Lord:

But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

BRETHREN, if a man also be surprised into any act of offence, ye that are spiritual, replace such a one in the spirit of meekness; keeping an attentive eye on thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

in whom also ye have been circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ:

Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;

But Christ becoming the high-priest of future good things, through a better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation;

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.