37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

you have been bought and paid for. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one."

that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

and the parts of it that we think common, we dress with especial care, and our unpresentable parts receive especial attention

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.

so that you may have the respect of the outsiders, and not be dependent upon anybody.

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

Treat everyone with respect. Love the brotherhood, be reverent to God, respect the emperor.

But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary.

Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control,

For there are three that testify to it,

That is the way husbands ought to love their wives??s if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

and man was not created for woman, but woman was for man.

but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers.

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter.

For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, for he is the image of God and reflects his glory; while woman is the reflection of man's glory.

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,

For the man who wrongs anyone will be paid back for the wrong he has done; there will be no exceptions.

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.

for God shows no partiality.

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

If we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit.

Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.