37 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

What! 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. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

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

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

and that every one of you should possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

as we gave you in charge, that ye may walk decently toward those that are without, and may have need of no one's assistance.

Let no one therefore judge you on account of meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new-moon, or sabbaths;

Give due honor to all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Therefore when he was risen from the dead,

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

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

be tenderly affected with brotherly love to each other, in honor preferring one another:

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.

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

which things indeed have a pretence to wisdom in voluntary worship, and humiliation, and bodily penance, as having no regard to the satisfying of the flesh.

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

Yea there are three that bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:

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

nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man.

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

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

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being 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 church, and gave up Himself for it:

but holding the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, who is the head, even Christ:

Servants, obey them that are your masters according to the flesh, with reverential fear, in the simplicity of your heart, as unto Christ:

but he that doth unjustly, shall receive for what wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons with God:

knowing that whatever good any one doth, he shall receive the reward of it from the Lord, whether He be a slave or free.

for there is no respect of persons with God.

So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning 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;

and the second is like it, even this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself:" there is no other commandment greater than these.

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

That, which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that, which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would have men do to you, do ye also in like manner unto them: for this is the doctrine of the law and the prophets.