18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World
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For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;
whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.
They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.
For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;
But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin; the unmarried woman careth about the things of the Lord, to be holy, both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him,
it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body.
The first covenant, then, had indeed ordinances of religious service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Remember those in bonds, as bound with them; those in distress, as being yourselves also in the body.
We have courage, therefore, always, and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh; while the one by the freewoman was through the promise.
But as at that time he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born through the Spirit, so it is now.
It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.
