37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need.

Yet argue modestly and cautiously, keeping your consciences free from guilt, so that, when you are spoken against, those who slander your good Christian lives may be put to shame.

so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.

Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.

Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?

But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.

These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.

Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule.

For there are three that give testimony-- the Spirit, the water, and the blood;

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.

But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity.

Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.

For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man.

For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.

Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.

so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.

"The second is this: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as thou lovest thyself.' "Other Commandment greater than these there is none."

If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.

Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

Everything, therefore, be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.