37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."

that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

keeping a good conscience; that whereas they malign you, as evil doers, they may be confounded who take pleasure in ridiculing your good conduct in Christ.

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

Let no man therefore judge you concerning what you eat, or what you drink, or the observance of a feast, or new moon, or the sabbaths;

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Now he had spoken with reference to the temple of his own body.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

But if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead on account of sin; but the Spirit is alive through righteousness.

In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Which things indeed hold forth an appearance of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and bodily mortification, [though] not of any value, [but] a gratification to the flesh.

Truly then we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For they are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these, even the three, are one.

So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.

Also the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

For bodily exercise is of little advantage, but godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;

But he that is guilty of injustice shall receive punishment for the wrong he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

knowing that whatsoever good a man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a bondman, or whether he be free.

for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

Wherefore, whosoever eateth of this bread, or drinketh the cup of the Lord unworthily, he is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

that ye may walk worthy of the Lord, well pleasing him in all things, in every good work fruitful, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

And the second, like it, is this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is no greater commandment than these.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would be willing that men should do to you, just so do ye to them: for this is the law and the prophets.