37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honor God in your bodies.

But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the Head of every man, that man is the Head of woman, and that God is the Head of the Christ.

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one');

Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

And those parts which we deem less honorable we surround with special honor; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require.

and keeping your consciences clear, so that, whenever you are maligned, those who vilify your good and Christian conduct may be put to shame.

So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.

Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

Do not you know that you are God's Temple, and that God's Spirit has his home in you?

But, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness.

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called 'humility,' and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature.

So then, Brothers, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.

It is a three-fold testimony--

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

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

But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of Life both here and hereafter.

A man ought not to have his head covered, for he has been from the beginning 'the likeness of God' and the reflection of his glory, but woman is the reflection of man's glory.

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

But holding the truth in a spirit of love, we shall grow into complete union with him who is our Head--Christ himself.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

Those who do wrong will reap the wrong they have done; and there will be no partiality.

For you know that every one will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or a freeman.

Since God shows no partiality.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.

Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God;

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Since our Life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit.

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.