18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.

They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

If we have sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly things?

Does not nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

But the spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

The first covenant then had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary.

Remember those bound as bound with them, and those injured as being yourselves also in the body.

Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But he by the servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the promise.

But as then he that was born of the flesh persecuted him that was born of the Spirit, so also now.

Since many boast of the flesh, I also will boast.

The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.