18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

It has pleased them greatly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in material things.

For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after 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 unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your material things?

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

But that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will boast also.

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.