46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size?

(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Take heed therefore lest the light in thee be darkness.

For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour;

Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?

And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin:

Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us?

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

The soul is more than food, and the body than clothing.

That no division be in the body; but the members should care the same for one another.

But the first not spiritual, but animated; then the spiritual.

Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

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

And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on.

But much rather the members of the body, seeming to be weak, are necessary:

But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.

And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith!

Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.

And Jehovah God will take the man and will set him down in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer together; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

And coming in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

He watched all his bones: one of them was not broken.

And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.

Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.

And a peg shall be to thee upon thy utensil: and it was in thy sitting down without, and digging with it, and turn thou back and cover thy excrement:

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.

And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum.

Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.

For Jehovah thy God goes in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thy face; and thy camp was holy; and he will not see in thee the nakedness of a word and turn back from after thee.

O Jehovah, what is man and thou wilt know him? the son of man, and thou wilt reckon him?

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

And after these, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, in secret, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might takeaway the body of Jesus: and Pilate conceded. He came then, and took the body of Jesus..

And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?

If then ye cannot do the least, why have ye anxiety for the rest?