46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body
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Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.
Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah.
and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;
having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.
that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,
Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.
Do ye not know that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.
as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:
But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.
a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;
(which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to the satisfaction of the flesh.
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;
So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.
But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.
For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.
Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:
Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;
For he that does a wrong shall receive the wrong he has done, and there is no respect of persons.
knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.
And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;
And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.
And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,
If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering;
And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
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