22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material
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Therefore from now on know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet from now on know we him no more.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants.
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the 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 we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.
For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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 after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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