36 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body
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Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;
But I wish you to know, that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.
Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.
that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
having a good conscience, in order that, in whatsoever you are calumniated, those traducing your good deportment in Christ may be ashamed.
in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.
Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath:
Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned.
kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.
Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity.
So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:
for man indeed was not created on account of the woman; but the woman on account of the man.
But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
For a man ought not to cover his head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;
but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ;
Ye servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in purity of your heart, as unto Christ;
for the one doing wrong receives that for which he did the injustice: and there is no respect of persons.
knowing that if each one may do good, he will receive this with the Lord, whether bond or free.
So whosoever may eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God.
And the second is like unto it; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
That which has been born of the flesh is flesh; and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Therefore all things whatsoever you may wish that the people may do unto you, do ye even so unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
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