37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body
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Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?
But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the wife is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";
that each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor;
and those members 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, in whatever ye are spoken against, those who revile your good conduct may be put to shame.
that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and that ye may have need of nothing.
Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths,
Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?
And, if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
in brotherly love being tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor, preferring one another;
Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each one, so love his own wife, as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Having, therefore, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Which things, having, indeed, a show of wisdom, in will-worship, humility, and severe treatment of the body, are not of any value, against the indulgence of the flesh.
Accordingly, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
So ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
for man was also not created on account of the woman, but woman on account of the man;
but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which is present and that to come.
For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,
but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;
Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
For he that does wrong shall receive back the wrong which he did; and there is no respect of persons,
knowing that whatsoever good thing each one does, this shall he receive from the Lord, whether bond or free.
Therefore, whosoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body, and blood of the Lord.
to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;
A second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
That which has been born of the flesh is flesh: and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
"All things, therefore, whatsoever ye wish that men should do to you, so do ye also to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
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