37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body
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Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?
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.
Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? "For the two," saith he, "shall become one flesh;"
that every one of you should know how to procure for himself his own vessel in purity and honor,
and what we think to be less honorable parts of the body, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness;
having a good conscience, that, wherein ye are evil spoken of, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ.
that ye may walk becomingly toward those without, and may have need of nothing.
Let no one then call you to account about food or drink, or a feastday, or a new moon, or sabbaths;
Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Know ye not, that ye are Gods temple, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
And if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in honor, give each other the preference.
However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Having then these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
which things have indeed a show of wisdom in willworship and humiliation and severity to the body, not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh.
So then, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
For bodily exercise is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man;
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,
but cleaving to truth in love, may grow up in all things unto him who is the head, even Christ;
Bondservants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as serving Christ;
For he that doeth wrong, shall receive back the wrong which he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.
knowing that whatever good each one shall have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bondman or free.
So that whoever eateth the bread or drinketh the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty with respect to the body and the blood of the Lord.
that ye may walk worthily of the Lord so as to please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
The second is this: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." There is no other commandment greater than these.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
All things, then, whatever ye would that men should do to you, do ye also so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.
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