46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

For ye 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.

What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good deportment in Christ.

That ye may walk honestly towards them that are without, and that ye may have need of nothing.

Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy-day, or or the new-moon, or of the sabbaths:

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

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

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

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.

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

For there are three that bear testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.

So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

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

Be not wise in thy own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable to 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, forasmuch as 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 speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

But he that doeth wrong, will receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Knowing that whatever good thing any man doeth, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

And the LORD shall make thee to abound in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore to thy fathers to give thee.

Wherefore, whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

That ye may walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: there is no other commandment greater than these.

And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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

Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase:

Men therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

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

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD 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 ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.