22 Bible Verses about Living Not For The Material

Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

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

so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.

For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment.

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.