39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his span of life?

(If a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God's church?).

Therefore be careful that the light in you is not darkness.

that each one of you know how to take his own spouse for himself in holiness and honor,

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin,

Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is of value in all things, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

shepherd the flock of God that is under your care, serving as overseersnot under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and then the spiritual.

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure that has been entrusted to you.

For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,

But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour;

Then he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about your body, what you will put on.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you as well.

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman, and the virgin, is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, how she may please her husband.

No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with the blood of his Own.

and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves are also in the body.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

After this Josnt of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

If you then are not able to do this very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest?