37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

But I wish you to know, that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,

And those members of the body, which, we think, are less honorable, around these we place the more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have the more abundant comeliness:

having a good conscience, that, inasmuch as they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who traduce your good con duct in Christ.

in order that you may walk with propriety toward those who are without, and may have need of nothing.

Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths,

Honor all men; love the brotherhood; reverence God; honor the king.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead, on account of sin, but the Spirit is life, on ac count of righteousness.

in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another;

But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

and these have a show of wisdom in will-worship and affected humility and neglect of the body, and in no regard for the gratification of the flesh.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

For there are three that testify, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood;

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

for the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

But if you show partiality for persons, you work sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

For a man ought not to vail his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

but speaking truthfully in love, we might grow up in all things, into him who is the head, even the Christ,

Servants, be subject to your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done; and there is no respect of persons.

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

for there is no respect of persons with God.

Wherefore he that eats this bread, or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an improper manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, in order to please him in all things, by means of every good work bringing forth fruit, and increasing in the knowledge, of God,

And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

That which is begotten of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is begotten of the Spirit, is spirit.

All things, therefore, whatever you would that men should do to you, even so do you to them: for this is the law and the prophets.