22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

So then, from now on we know no one {from a human point of view}, if indeed we have known Christ {from a human point of view}, but now we know [him this way] no longer.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

in order that the requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.

That is, [it is] not the children {by human descent} [who are] children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and do not [put] confidence in the flesh,

For [although we] are living in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh,

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

For the Jew is not {one outwardly}, nor [is] circumcision {outwardly}, in the flesh.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

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

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that [the things] which I am writing to you are of the Lord.

so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

Brothers, even if a person is caught in some trespass, you [who are] spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of humility, looking out for yourself, lest you also be tempted.

in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, by the removal of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

Do not lie to one another, [because you] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,

But Christ has arrived [as] a high priest of the good [things] to come. Through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.