46 Bible Verses about Respecting Your Body

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I am Jehovah.

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

and if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;

which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

because three are who are testifying in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these -- the three -- are one;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

'And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

and the second is like it, this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; -- greater than these there is no other command.'

And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present,

'And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

'All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.