18 Bible Verses about Life In A Material World

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

They determined to do it, and they really are indebted to them, for if the heathen have shared their spiritual blessings, they ought to do them a service in material ways.

For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth.

A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear his hair long is degrading,

It is a physical body that is sown, it is a spiritual body that is raised. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body also.

It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.

Even the first agreement provided regulations for worship, and a sanctuary that was fully equipped.

Remember those who are in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated as being yourselves liable to the same trials.

So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.

But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born through the influence of the Spirit, so it is today.

Since many are so human as to boast, I will do it also.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.