46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:

These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

For one man is not different from another before God.

And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.

Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.

All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.