46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,

for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

But I would have you know 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 know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

each one of you to know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.

And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety.

having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

so that you may walk becomingly toward those outside, and that you may lack nothing.

Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.

Honor all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

But He spoke of the temple of His body.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.

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

a nation fierce of face who shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.

These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the body, but are not of any value for the satisfying of the flesh.

Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

For there are three that bear witness {\I in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.

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

Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;

Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.

(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).

For there is no respect of faces with God.

And Jehovah shall prosper you in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.

So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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

And did He not make you one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit is in him. And what of the one? He was seeking a godly seed. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously with the wife of your youth.

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

Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase;

Therefore, men fear Him; He does not respect any who are wise in heart.

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

And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat of it. And Jehovah had respect to Abel and to his offering,

For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.

Therefore all things, whatever you desire that men should do to you, do even so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.