Bible Verses about the Body

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• Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
  1 Corinthians 6:19-20worshipSpiritlife
• Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
  Romans 12:4-5Jesuscommunitydependence
• You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
  and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
  Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
  Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
  Psalm 139:13-14creationmiraclessoul
• My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak,
  but God remains the strength of my heart;
  he is mine forever.
  Psalm 73:26strengthlifedependence
• So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.
  Ecclesiastes 11:10sadnessworryingheart
• A cheerful heart is good medicine,
  but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.
  Proverbs 17:22healingheartsickness
• Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!
  Matthew 26:41prayertemptationdesires
• Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.
  Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
  Then you will have healing for your body
  and strength for your bones.
  Proverbs 3:7-8aweblessingevil
• Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.
  1 Timothy 4:8healthobediencelife
• And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.
  Colossians 3:15Jesuspeacegratitude
• That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgment
• Kind words are like honey—
  sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.
  Proverbs 16:24gentlenessspeakingsoul
• That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?
  Matthew 6:25foodlifeworrying
• For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.
  Ephesians 4:4Spirithopecalling
• The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.
  1 Corinthians 12:12communitychurchJesus
• Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
  Matthew 10:28fearsoulhell
• Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
  James 3:2blamelessspeaking
• So if your eye—even your good eye—causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
  Matthew 5:29sindesireshell
• That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or enough clothes to wear. For life is more than food, and your body more than clothing.
  Luke 12:22b-23worryingfoodlife
• For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
  2 Corinthians 5:1lifedeathheaven
• The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.
  1 Corinthians 7:3-4marriagesexuality
• O God, you are my God;
  I earnestly search for you.
  My soul thirsts for you;
  my whole body longs for you
  in this parched and weary land
  where there is no water.
  Psalm 63:1worshipseekingsoul
• Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
  “At last!” the man exclaimed.
  “This one is bone from my bone,
  and flesh from my flesh!
  She will be called ‘woman,’
  because she was taken from ‘man.’”
  This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
  Genesis 2:22-24marriagecreationsexuality
• He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
  Luke 22:19breadgratitudeJesus