Bible Verses about the Body

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• 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.
  1 Corinthians 6:19-20worshipSpiritlife
• For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
  Romans 12:4-5Jesuscommunitydependence
• 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.
  Psalm 139:13-14creationmiraclessoul
• My flesh and my heart may fail,
  but God is the strength of my heart
  and my portion forever.
  Psalm 73:26strengthlifedependence
• Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
  Ecclesiastes 11:10sadnessworryingheart
• A joyful heart is good medicine,
  but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
  Proverbs 17:22healingheartsickness
• Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  Matthew 26:41prayertemptationdesires
• Be not wise in your own eyes;
  fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
  It will be healing to your flesh
  and refreshment to your bones.
  Proverbs 3:7-8aweblessingevil
• For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
  1 Timothy 4:8healthobediencelife
• And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
  Colossians 3:15Jesuspeacegratitude
• So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgment
• Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
  sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
  Proverbs 16:24gentlenessspeakingsoul
• Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
  Matthew 6:25foodlifeworrying
• There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call.
  Ephesians 4:4Spirithopecalling
• For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
  1 Corinthians 12:12communitychurchJesus
• And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
  Matthew 10:28fearsoulhell
• For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
  James 3:2blamelessspeaking
• If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
  Matthew 5:29sindesireshell
• Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
  Luke 12:22b-23worryingfoodlife
• 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 5:1lifedeathheaven
• O God, you are my God;
  earnestly I seek you;
  my soul thirsts for you;
  my flesh faints for you,
  as in a dry and weary land
  where there is no water.
  Psalm 63:1worshipseekingsoul
• The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
  1 Corinthians 7:3-4marriagesexuality
• And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24marriagecreationsexuality
• For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
  1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritcommunity