What Does the Bible Say About My Body My Choice?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Matthew 18:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

Leviticus 24:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.

Proverbs 24:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Job 31:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 8:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

Luke 1:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

Isaiah 44:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 1:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Psalm 119:94 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

Deuteronomy 27:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,

Ezekiel 16:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

Jeremiah 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

31 Bible Verses about My Body My Choice

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Matthew 18:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Leviticus 24:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Job 31:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 1:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 44:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 1:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:94 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 27:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 16:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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31 Bible Verses about My Body My Choice

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Matthew 18:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Matthew 18:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Leviticus 24:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Job 31:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 1:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 44:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 1:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:94 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 27:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 16:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes