Bible Verses About Matter

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

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

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

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

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

The same was in the beginning with God.