20 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.

But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.

We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.

I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

He is no Jew who is merely a Jew outwardly, nor is circumcision something outward in the flesh;

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

If anyone considers himself a prophet or gifted with the Spirit, let him understand that what I write to you is a command of the Lord.

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.

Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted.

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,

But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.