39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?

for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

Take heed, therefore, lest the light that is in you be darkness.

That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,

Observe the birds of the air, that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into granaries. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat, and what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not your life a greater gift than food, and your body than clothing?

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin.

Therefore, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?

For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church:

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

Life is a greater gift than food, and the body, than clothing.

that there may be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same anxious care, one for another;

But that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.

That good thing which was intrusted to you, keep by the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.

For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office,

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what you shall speak; for that which you shall speak shall be given you in that hour:

And he said to his disciples: For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall put on.

But much more are those members of the body necessary, which seem to be more feeble.

But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you in addition.

If then, God so clothes the herb of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

and if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

and they entered in, but found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent infirmities.

and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

And fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

And those members of the body, which, we think, are less honorable, around these we place the more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have the more abundant comeliness:

Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband.

Remember those who are in bonds, as if you yourselves had been bound, and those who suffer affliction, since you yourselves are in the body.

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him permission. He then came and took away the body of Jesus.

and any of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet give them not the things that are needful for the body, what does this profit them?

If, therefore, you can not do that which is the least, why are you anxious about the rest?