165 Bible Verses about Body

My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth. Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them.

And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.

Thy hands formed me, and they will work me together round about; and thou wilt swallow me down. Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust. Wilt thou not weigh me out as milk, and coagulate me as cheese?read more.
Thou wilt clothe me with skin and flesh, and thou wilt hedge me with bones and sinews.

And he will send and bring him. And he red, with beauty of eyes, and good of sight And Jehovah will say, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

And to him was a son and his name Saul, a young man and good: and not a man of the sons of Israel good above him: from his shoulder and from above, high above all the people.

And it will be at the time of the evening, and David will rise from off his bed, and will go upon the roof of the king's house: and he will see from the roof a woman washing herself; and the woman good of aspect exceedingly.

And his body as topaz, and his face as the sight of lightning, and his eyes as flames of fire, and his arms and his feet as the eye of polished brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.

For it is his covering alone; his garment for his nakedness in which he shall lie; and it was when he shall cry to me, and I heard, for I am compassionate.

And make for them drawers of linen to cover the flesh of nakedness: from the loins and even to the thighs they shall be.

The holy linen tunic shall be put on, and the linen drawers shall be upon his flesh, and with a linen girdle shall he be girded, and with a linen turban shall he be wound round: these the holy garments; and he washed his flesh in water and put them on.

And it will be when the king heard the woman's words, and he will rend his garments; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people will see, and behold, sackcloth upon his flesh, from within.

In that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah, son of Amos, saying, Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thou shalt draw off the shoe from thy foot And he will do so, going naked and barefoot

And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.

To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

And it will be to days from days, and according to the time of the going forth of the end to the days the second time, his bowels will go forth with his sickness: and he will die with evil sicknesses. And his people made not to him a burning as the burning of his fathers.

And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul upon him shall mourn.

And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.

My skin was black from above me, and my bones burnt from heat

I was moved, I was even greatly bowed down: all the day I went darkened.

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.

When to a man there shall be a lifting up in the skin of his flesh, or a scab, or brightness, and it was in the skin of his flesh for the stroke of leprosy; and he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. And the priest saw the stroke in the skin of the flesh: and the hair in the stroke turned white, and the sight of the stroke deep from the skin of his flesh, it is the stroke of leprosy: and the priest saw him and defiled him. And if the brightness it white in the skin of his flesh, and its sight not deep from the skin, and the hair not turned white; and the priest shut up the stroke seven days.read more.
And the priest saw him in the seventh day: and behold, the stroke stood; in his eyes, the stroke spread not in the skin, and the priest shut him up the second seven days. And the priest saw him in the seventh day, the second time, and behold, the stroke dim, and the stroke spread not in the skin, and the priest cleansed him: it is a scab: and he washed his garments and was clean. And if spreading, the scab shall spread in the skin, after his being seen to the priest for his cleansing, and he was seen the second time to the priest And the priest saw, and behold, the scab spread in the skin, and the priest defiled him: it is leprosy. When the stroke of leprosy shall be in a man, and he shall be brought to the priest: And the priest saw, and behold, a lifting up white in the skin, and it turned the hair white, and the quickening of living flesh in the lifting up: It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall defile him; he shall not shut him up for he is unclean. And if breaking out, the leprosy shall break out in the skin, and the leprosy covered all the skin, the stroke from his head and even to his feet, to all the sight of the eyes of the priest: And the priest saw, and behold, the leprosy covered all his flesh, and he cleansed the stroke: all of it turned white: he is clean. In the day of seeing in him the living flesh, he shall be unclean. And the priest saw the living flesh, and he defiled him: the living flesh it is unclean: it is leprosy. Or when the living flesh shall turn back and turn to white, he shall be brought to the priest And the priest saw him, and behold, the stroke turned to white; and the priest cleansed the stroke: he is clean.

And the cloud removed from the tent; and behold, Miriam being leprous as snow: and Aaron will look upon Miriam, and behold, her being leprous

It will stay upon the head of Joab and to all the house of his father; and there shall not be cut off from the house of Joab, him flowing, and the leprous, and him holding fast upon a staff, and him falling upon a sword, and him diminished in bread.

And Naaman chief of the army of the king of Aram was a man before his lord, and he was rifted up in the face, for by him Jehovah gave salvation to Aram: and the man was mighty of strength; being leprous. And Aram will go forth by troops, and take captive from the land of Israel a little girl; and she will be before Naaman's wife.

And Uzziah will he angry, and in his hand a censer to burn incense: and in his being angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, from above to the altar of incense. And Azariah the head priest will turn to him, and all the priests, and behold, he was smitten in his forehead, and they will drive him out from thence; and he also hastened to go forth, for Jehovah struck him. And Uzziah the king will be smitten even to the day of his death; and he dwelt in a house of infirmity, leprous; for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

And, behold, a leper, having come, worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst cleanse me. And having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and instantly his leprosy was cleansed.

And a leprous one came to him, beseeching him, and supplicating him on his knees, and saying to him, That if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me. And Jesus, having felt compassion, having stretched out the hand, touched him, and says to him, I will: be thou cleansed. And he having spoken, quickly the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

And it was in his being in one of the cities, and behold a man full of leprosy: and having seen Jesus, having fallen upon the face, supplicated him, saying, Lord, if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me. And having put forth the hand, he touched him, saying, I will: be thou cleansed. And the leprosy departed from him.

And he coming to a certain town, ten leprous men met him, who stood far off: And they lifted up the voice, saying, Jesus, faster, pity us.

And it was for dust upon all the land of Egypt, and it was upon man, and upon quadruped for a burning sore breaking forth with pustules over all the land of Egypt And they will take ashes of the furnace and will stand before Pharaoh; and Moses will sprinkle it towards the heavens; and it will be a burning sore, breaking forth with pustules upon man and upon quadruped. And the sacred scribes will not be able to stand before Moses on account of the burning sore: for the burning sore was upon the sacred scribes, and in all Egypt

And when the flesh shall be in it, in his skin, a burning sore, and was healed, And there was in the place of the burning sore a white rising, or brightness, white, reddish, and he was seen to the priest; And the priest saw, and behold, the sight low from the skin, and its hair turned white: and the priest defiled him: it is the stroke of leprosy broken out in the burning sore.read more.
And if the priest shall see it, and behold, no white hair in it, and it not low from the skin, and it was dim; and the priest shut him up seven days: And if spreading, it shall spread in the skin, and the priest defiled him: it the stroke. And if the brightness shall stand still, lowest, spreading not, it the scar of the burning sore; and the priest cleansed him.

Jehovah shall strike thee with the burning sore of Egypt, and with tumors, and with scratching, and with the itch of which thou shalt not be able to be healed.

And Isaiah will say, Take a round mass of figs. And they will take and put upon the burning sore, and he will live.

And Isaiah will say, They shall lift up round cakes of figs, and rub over the burning sore, and he shall live.

Then said the other disciples to him, We have seen the Lord. And he said to them, Except I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

For the rest let none cause me fatigues: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body

And a certain woman, being in a flowing of blood twelve years, And having suffered many things by many physicians, and having expended all of her own, and not having been benefited, but having come rather to the worse, Having heard concerning Jesus, having come in the crowd behind, she touched his garment.read more.
For she said, That if I touch his garment, I shall be saved. And quickly the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she knew in the body that she is healed from the plague.

And behold, a woman discharging blood twelve years, having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment: For she said in herself, If I should only touch the hem of his garment, I shall be saved. And Jesus having turned round, and seeing her, said, Take courage, daughter; thy faith has saved thee. And the woman was saved from that hour.

And a woman being in a flowing of blood for twelve years, who having expended all the means of subsistence upon physicians, could not be cured by any. Having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment: and immediately her flow of blood was stopped.

And he will say, Turn back thy hand into thy bosom. And he will turn back his hand into his bosom, and he will bring it forth from his bosom, and behold, it turned back as his flesh.

And Elisha will send a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash seven times in Jordan and, thy flesh shall: turn back to thee and be clean.

His flesh revived above a youth: he shall turn back to the days of his childhood.

And having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and instantly his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no one; but retire, show thyself to the priest, and bring near the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

And Jesus, having felt compassion, having stretched out the hand, touched him, and says to him, I will: be thou cleansed. And he having spoken, quickly the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

And having put forth the hand, he touched him, saying, I will: be thou cleansed. And the leprosy departed from him.

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress? Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size?read more.
And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin: And I say to you that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith! Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us? For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these.

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on. The soul is more than food, and the body than clothing. Consider the ravens: for they sow not neither do they reap; to them there is not store-house nor store; and God nourishes them: how much more have ye preeminence of the fowls?read more.
And which of you having anxiety can add to his size one cubit? If then ye cannot do the least, why have ye anxiety for the rest? Consider the white lilies, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin; and I say to you, neither was Solomon in all his glory clothed as one of these. And if the grass, to day being in the field and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes; how much rather you, ye of little faith? And ye, seek ye not what ye eat, or what ye drink, and keep not in anxiety. For all these things the nations of the world seek for: and your Father knows that ye have need of these.

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these not having anything remaining to do. And I will shew you whom ye should fear: Fear him having power, after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him.

And he will call to Jehovah, and say, Jehovah my God, didst thou also do evil upon the widow which I dwelt with her to kill her son? And he will measure upon the child three times, and he will call to Jehovah, and say, Jehovah my God wilt thou turn back now the soul of this child within his inner part? And Jehovah will hear to the voice of Elijah, and he will turn back the soul of the child within his inner part, and he will live.

Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.

And Elisha will go into the house, and behold, the boy dead, lying upon his bed. And he will go in and shut the door after them two, and he will pray to Jehovah. And he will come up and lie down upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hand; and he will bow himself upon him, and the flesh of the child will be warm.read more.
And he will turn back and go into the house, once hence, and once thence; and he will go up, and he will bow himself upon him: and the boy will sneeze, even to seven times; and the boy will open his eyes. And he will call to Gehazi and say, Call to this Shunamitess. And he will call her, and she will come to him, and he will say, Lift up thy son.

And that year will be ended, and they will come to him in the second year, and will say to him, We will not hide from my lord if the silver was spent; and the possession of the cattle to my lord; and there was not left before my lord except but our bodies and our lands.

And it will be they were burying a man, and behold, they saw a troop; and they will cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and the man will go and touch upon the bones of Elisha, and he will live and rise upon his feet

And its produce being much for the kings whom thou gavest over us in our sins: and ruling over our bodies and upon our cattle according to their will, and we in great straits.

But when the crowd was driven forth, having entered, he seized her hand, and the little girl was awakened.

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

And having taken the hand of the young child, he says to her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Little girl, I say to thee, arise. And the little girl arose quickly, and walked; for she was of twelve years. And they were affected in mind with great amazement.

And behold, the word of Jehovah was to him, saying, This shall not inherit thee, for truly he who shall come forth from thy bowels shall inherit thee.

And God will say to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assembly of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come forth from thy loins.

And he having cast all without, and held firmly her hand, called, saying, Child, arise. And her spirit returned, and she rose up immedrately: and he ordered to give her to eat.

When thy days shall be filled up and thou shalt lie down with thy fathers, and I raised up thy seed after thee which shall come forth thy bowels, and I prepared his kingdom.

And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise. And the dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

Will Jehovah delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of oil? shall I give my first-born my transgression? the fruit of my belly, the sin of my soul?

And having said these, he cried out with a great voice, Lazarus, come out. And the dead came out, bound feet and hands with bandages; and his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus says to them, Loose him, and let him retire.

Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.

And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb:

For this my heart rejoiced, and my glory shall exult: also my flesh shall dwell with confidence. For thou wilt not leave my soul to hades; thou wilt not give thy merciful ones to see corruption.

For yet was he in his father's loins, when Melchisedec met him.

Thy dead shall live, with my corpse shall they rise. Awake and shout, ye dwelling in dust: for the dew of brightness is thy dew, and the land of the shades shall fall.

And all the tribes of Israel will come to David to Hebron, and they will say, saying, Behold us thy bone and thy flesh.

And all Israel will gather together to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we thy bone and thy flesh.

And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you.

But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die: And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body going to be, but the naked kernel, if perhaps of wheat, or some of the rest:read more.
And God gives it a body as he would, and to each of the seed its own body. Not all flesh the same flesh: but one truly flesh of men, and another of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of flying things. And celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but truly one the glory of the celestial, and another that of the terrestrial. One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory. So also the rising up of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body. So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive. But the first not spiritual, but animated; then the spiritual. The first man of earth, made of earth: the second man the Lord from heaven. As the made of earth, such also the made of earth: and as the celestial, such also the celestial. And as we have borne the image of the made of earth, we shall also bear the image of the celestial. And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed, In an atom, in the twinkling of the eye, in the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corrupted must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory.

And the man will say, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; and this shall be called woman, because she was taken from man.

And they will rise early in the morning, and behold, Dagon fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah: and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of his hands cut off upon the threshold; only Dagon was left upon him.

And Laban will say to him, Surely my bone and my flesh art thou: and he will dwell with him a month of days.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. A mouth to them, and they shall not speak: eyes to them, and they will not see: Ears to them, and they shall not hear: a nose to them, and they shall not smell:read more.
Their hands, and they will not feel: their feet, and they shall not go: they shall not murmur in their throat

Speak, now, in the ears of all the lords of Shechem, What good to you for seventy men of all the sons of Jerubbaal to rule over you, or one man to rule over you? and remember that I am your bone and your flesh.

A heart of healing, the life of the flesh: and jealousy the rottenness of the bones.

The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. A mouth to them, and they shall not speak; eyes to them, and they shall not see; Ears to them, and they shall not hear; also there is no spirit in their mouth.

Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil. It shall be healing to thy sinews, and moistening to thy bones.

And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.

Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.

My son, attend to my word; incline thine ear to my sayings. They shall not turn aside from thine eyes; watch them in the midst of thy heart For they are life to those finding them, and healing to all their flesh.

And seraphs standing from above to it; six wings, six wings to one; with two he will cover his face, and with two he will cover his feet, and with two he will fly.

And their faces: and their wings spread out from above; to each of the two being joined each, and two covering their bodies.

This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest His sides were filled with fat, and the marrow of his bones will, be moistened. And this will die in the soul of bitterness, and will not eat in good.read more.
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.

The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife.

And all their flesh, and their back, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels being filled with eyes round about, the wheels to them four.

For not the pains to their death, and their body fat

And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife; And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

For thine arrows came down upon me, and thy hand will press down upon me.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:

And the stars of heaven shall be falling out, and the powers which in the heavens shall be shaken.

Happy the man Jehovah will not reckon sin to him, and no deceit in his spirit If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

No soundness in my flesh from thy wrath; no peace in my bones from the face of my sins. For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me. My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly.read more.
I was moved, I was even greatly bowed down: all the day I went darkened. For my loins were filled with inflammation, and no soundness in my flesh. I was languid and crushed even greatly: I roared from the groaning of my heart O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee. My heart moved about rapidly, my strength forsook me, and the light of mine eyes also they not with me.

Men losing breath for fear and expectation of things coming on the habitable globe: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

He shall be circumcised with circumcising, he being born in thy house, and bought with thy silver: and my covenant was in your flesh for an eternal covenant And the uncircumcised male which shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his uncircumcision, and that soul shall be cut off from its people: he broke my covenant

And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,

And he will put on cursing as his garment, and it shall come into his midst as water, and as oil into his bones.

And celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but truly one the glory of the celestial, and another that of the terrestrial. One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory.

And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness,

Behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I reviewed over all the circumcised with the uncircumcised;

Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly. For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.

And from the Nethinims David gave, and the chiefs, for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were specified by names.

For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth.

And a man, when the effusion of seed shall go forth from him, and he washed in water all his flesh, and was unclean till the evening

Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders.

And what great nation to whom laws and judgments just, as all the instructions which I give before you this day?

She was emptied, and being emptied, and being made empty: and the heart melted, and a wavering of the knees, and trembling in all loins, and the face of them all gathered a glow.

And thus thou shalt do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them the water of sin, and they caused a razor to pass over upon all their flesh, and they washed their garments, and they were cleansed.

And ye shall not give an incision for the soul in your flesh, and a mark of stigma ye shall not give upon you: I Jehovah.

Fear met me, and trembling, and caused the multitude of my bones to tremble. And the spirit will glide before my face; the hair of my flesh will stand erect:

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the inexperienced, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions.

And when I remembered and trembled, and horror took hold of my flesh.

Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.

For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing

Jesus answered and said to them, Loose this temple, and in three days will I raise it up. Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But he spake concerning the temple of his body.read more.
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them; and they believed the writing, and the word which Jesus spake.

And in his speaking with me according to these words I gave my face to the earth, and I was dumb. And behold, as the likeness of the sons of man touched upon my lips: and I shall open my mouth and speak and say to him standing before me, O my lord, by the sight my straights were turned upon me, and I retained not strength. And how shall this servant of my lord be able to speak with this my lord and I, from this time no strength will stand in me, and breath was not left in me.

And if Christ in you, truly the body dead by sin; and the Spirit life by justice. And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you.

Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour;

And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.