37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.

upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness.

As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

Therefore, brothers, we are debtors??ut not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water,

That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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

If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

For there is no partiality with God.

So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

"The second is this, "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Other command greater than these there is none."

If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

"Therefore everything that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.