24 Bible Verses about Living For The Material

For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?

yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.