46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Either, know ye not how that your bodies are the temple of the holy ghost, which is in you, whom he have of God, and how that ye are not your own?

For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.

I would ye knew that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the woman's head; and God is Christ's head.

Do ye not understand that he which coupleth himself with a harlot, is become one body? "For two," saith he, "shall be one flesh."

that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

And upon those members of that body which we think least honest, put we most honesty on. And our ungoodly parts have most beauty on.

having a good conscience, that when they backbite you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, forasmuch as they have falsely accused your good conversation in Christ.

that ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without and that nothing be lacking unto you.

Let no man therefore trouble your consciences about meat and drink: or for a piece of a holy day, as the holy day of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day:

See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.

But he spake of the temple of his body.

Are ye not aware that ye are the temple of God, and how that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If Christ be in you: the body is dead, because of sin; But the spirit is life for righteousness' sake.

Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.

Nevertheless, do ye so that every one of you love his wife truly even as himself: And let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Seeing that we have such promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and grow up to full holiness in the fear of God.

a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young.

which things have the similitude of wisdom in chosen holiness, and humbleness, and in that they spare not the body - and do the flesh no worship unto his need.

Therefore, brethren, we are now debtors; not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

And it is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth.

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

Neither was the man created for the woman's sake: but the woman for the man's sake.

But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

Be not wise in thine own conceit, but fear the LORD, and depart from evil:

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness: but unto holiness.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.

A man ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God. The woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands: love your wives, even as Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself for it,

But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ,

Servants, be obedient unto your carnal masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your hearts, as unto Christ:

But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons.

And remember that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, that shall he receive again of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

For there is no partiality with God:

And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Wherefore whosoever shall eat of this bread, or drink of the cup unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God

And the second is like unto this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor, as thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these."

So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

If we live in the spirit, let us walk in the spirit.

Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstlings of all thine increase:

Seeing then that everybody feareth him, why should not all wise men also stand in fear of him?"

That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

And Abel, he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering:

And I will turn unto you and increase you and multiply you, and set up my covenant with you.

"Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, even so do ye to them: this is the law and the prophets.