46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying?

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness.

so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’

for

the training of the body has a limited benefit,
but godliness is beneficial in every way,
since it holds promise for the present life
and also for the life to come.

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away pain from your flesh,
because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but freely, according to God’s will; not for the money but eagerly;

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

so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.

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

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, that good thing entrusted to you.

Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function,

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith?

Therefore, as we have opportunity, we must work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.

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

Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.

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

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

But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

You must have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.

For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.

Lord, what is man, that You care for him,
the son of man, that You think of him?

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away.

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?