46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

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1 Corinthians 6:16

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 12:23

and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

1 Thessalonians 4:12

so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

John 2:21

But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

Deuteronomy 28:50

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

Colossians 2:23

These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Romans 8:12

So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

Ephesians 5:28

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

James 2:9

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

1 Corinthians 11:27

Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

Malachi 2:15

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

Job 37:24

“Therefore men fear Him;
He does not regard any who are wise of heart.”

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