13 Bible Verses about Bodily Limbs
Most Relevant Verses
and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.
But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.
If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.