46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

But which of you by carefulness can add to his growth one cubit?

(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

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

Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than they?

For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

And why are ye careful about clothing? Observe with attention the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin;

Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we put on?

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;

The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.

For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;

But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.

And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

But if God so clothe the herbage of the field, which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much rather you, O ye of little faith?

So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

If any one corrupt the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

And when they had entered they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.

But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.

Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee.

And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

For Jehovah thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; and thy camp shall be holy, that he see nothing unseemly with thee, and turn away from thee.

Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.

And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus: and Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.

and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what is the profit?

If therefore ye cannot do even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?