39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

But which of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life?

(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).

So be on your guard that the very source of light in you is not darkness.

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

Take a good look at the wild birds, for they do not sow or reap, or store up food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps on feeding them. Are you not worth more than they?

So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

And why should you worry about clothes? Look at the wild lilies and learn how they grow. They do not toil or spin;

So never worry and say, 'What are we going to have to eat? What are we going to have to drink? What are we going to have to wear?'

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.

Foods are intended for the stomach, and the stomach for foods, but God will finally put a stop to both of them. The body is not intended for sexual immorality but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though you had to but of your own free will, not from the motive of personal profit but freely,

Your life is worth more than food, and your body more than clothes.

so that there is no disharmony in the body, but all the parts have a common care for one another.

But it is not the spiritual that comes first; it is the physical, and then the spiritual.

Guard this fine deposit of truth by the aid of the Holy Spirit who has His home in our hearts.

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

But when they turn you over to the courts, you must not worry at all about how or what you ought to speak, for it will be given you at that hour what you ought to speak.

Then He said to His disciples: "Stop worrying, then, about life, as to what you will have to eat, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear.

No, on the contrary, even those parts of the body that seem to be most delicate are indispensable,

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is sacred to Him, and you are that temple.

If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it. If one part receives an honor, all the parts can share its joy.

and yet on going inside they did not find the body.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.

Stop drinking water only, but take a little wine to strengthen your stomach and relieve its frequent attacks.

and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.

You must never be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But rather you must keep on fearing Him who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

and the parts of it we deem devoid of honor we dress with special honor, and our ill-shaped parts receive more careful attention,

The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.

Continue to remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and those who are being ill-treated, since you, too, are liable to similar physical punishment.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he went and removed His body.

and one of you says to him, "Blessings on you, keep warm, eat until you have aplenty," without giving him the things that are needed for the body, what good does it do?

So if you cannot do this very little thing, why should you worry about the rest?