46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Or 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?

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man [is the] head of the woman, and [the] head of Christ [is] God.

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body [with her]? For it says, "The two will become one flesh."

[that] each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I [am] Yahweh.

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

But [do so] with courtesy and respect, having a good conscience, so that in [the things] in which you are slandered, the ones who malign your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.

{a grim-faced nation} {who does not show respect} to [the] old and [the] young [and] does not show pity.

which [things] {although they have}, to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, {do not have any value} against the indulgence of the flesh.

So then, brothers, we are obligated not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

For [there] are three that testify,

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

For indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and retreat from evil.

For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, [because he] is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him [with reference to] all [things], who is the head, Christ,

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

For the one who does wrong will receive back whatever wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

For [there] is no partiality with God.

And {Yahweh will make you successful and prosperous}, in the fruit of your womb and on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give to you.

So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

The second [is] this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

{Did not one God make them?} But a remnant of [the] spirit is his. And what does the one [God] desire? An offspring of God. {You must be attentive to} your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,

Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any {who think that they are wise}."

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

and Abel also brought [an offering] from {the choicest firstlings of his flock}. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,

And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you.

Therefore [in] all [things], whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets.