What Does the Bible Say About Taking Care Of The Body?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 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.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

1 Corinthians 7:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. “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. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” ...

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 8:23 ESV / 2 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.

Romans 8:10-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Romans 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

17 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of The Body

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:10-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:10-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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