37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Know ye not, 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 are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

But I would have you know, that the head of the woman is the man, and the head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God.

God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

And those which we think to be the less honourable parts of the body, these we surround with more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

That ye may walk decently toward them that are without, and may want nothing.

Let none therefore judge you in meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast-day, or of the new-moon, or of sabbath-days: Which are shadow of things to come;

Honour all men, Love the brotherhood, Fear God,

But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this;

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

Now if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

In brotherly love be full of tender affection toward each other, in honour preferring one another:

But let every one of you in particular so love his wife as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

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

Which things (though they have indeed a shew of wisdom, in voluntary worship and humility, and not sparing the body) yet are not of any value, but are to the satisfying of the flesh.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one.

Men ought so to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Neither was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the sake of the man.

But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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

For bodily exercise profiteth a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

A man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, love your 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, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto the Lord:

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

Knowing that whatsoever good each man doth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a servant or free.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

So that whosoever shall eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

That ye may walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

This is the first commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater 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.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.