46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

I would have you know, that the head (authority) of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one (united with her) body? For he said: Two will be one flesh.

Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor,

Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am Jehovah.

And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability.

Keep a good conscience. When you are spoken against, those who revile your good manner of life in Christ may be put to shame.

That way you may walk honestly in the eyes of those on the outside and lack nothing.

Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Reverence and respect God. Honor the king.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.

Be devoted to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another.

Each one of you should love his own wife even as himself. The wife should respect her husband.

Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

These have, indeed, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body. But these are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

So then, brothers we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh (human nature),

There are three that testify: (Latin Vulgate: tres testimonium: three that testify.)

In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.

Neither was man created for woman but woman for man.

But when you show partiality you commit sin. The law then convicts you as transgressors.

Do not think you are wise enough. Respect Jehovah and turn away from evil.

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.

For a man should not cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

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

By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong that he has done. There is no partiality.

You know that whatever good thing each person does, the same shall he receive again from God, whether he be slave or free.

God is not partial! (God does not play favorites!)

Jehovah will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your animals and in the produce of your ground, the land that Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.

Whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of [sinning against] (falsely representing) the body and blood of the Lord.

Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

The second is you should love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these. (Leviticus 19:18)

Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

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

Honor Jehovah with your wealth and give him the best of all you have.

Therefore men respect him! He shows no partiality to the wise at heart.

That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.

But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn (firstlings) of his flock. Jehovah looked with favor on Abel and his offering.

I will bless you and give you many children. I will keep my part of the covenant that I made with you.

Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.