39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

And which of you by all his thought can add one cubit to his stature?

(for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Take heed therefore least the light which is in thee be darkness.

and that every one of you should possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

Look at the birds of the air; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns: and yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye preferable to them?

therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than raiment?

And why are ye sollicitous about raiment? consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I tell you,

Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or how shall we be clothed?

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord also doth the church:

taking the episcopal charge of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with a ready mind:

the life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

that there might be no schism in the body; but that all the members might have the same care one for another.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.

The good thing committed to thee keep, through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

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

but when they take you up, be not sollicitous how, or what ye shall say; for ye shall be taught in that very instant what ye shall speak: for it is not you that speak,

And He said to his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on:

But those parts of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary:

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these shall be superadded unto you.

Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which is growing to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the fire, will He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

And therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the houshold of faith.

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, and this temple are ye.

And so if one member suffer all the members suffer with it; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

but found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

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

Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine with it, for the sake of thy stomach and thy frequent infirmities.

Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

And be not afraid of them, who can only 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.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the holy Spirit hath appointed you bishops, to feed the church of God, which He purchased with his own blood.

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; and in like manner also the wife to the husband.

Remember those that are in bonds, as if bound with them: and those that suffer evil as being yourselves also in the body.

But put on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the flesh to gratify its irregular desires.

And after these things Joseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Jesus, but a concealed one for fear of the Jews) petitioned Pilate, that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave: he came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.

and one of you say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and be ye filled: but ye give them not the necessaries of life, what profit is it to them?

If then ye cannot do even the lest, why are ye so anxious about the rest?