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Bible Verses About Substance

This collection includes 50 passages about Substance. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

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

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Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

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

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It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

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But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

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For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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

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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.

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If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

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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.

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Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

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For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

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Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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

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

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

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And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

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And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

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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?

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Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

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And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

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Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

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Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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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.

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And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

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But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

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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.

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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

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For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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