46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the congregation of God?)

Take heed therefore if the light which is in thee is darkness.

that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honesty,

Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin;

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed?

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord with his congregation :

Feed the flock of God which is among you, caring for her, not by force, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with willing desire;

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

that there should be no contradiction in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

Howbeit the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward, that which is spiritual.

Keep the good deposit committed unto thee by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

For in the manner that we have many members in one body, nevertheless all the members do not have the same operation;

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

For those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary;

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

Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore as long as we have the opportunity, let us do good unto everyone, especially unto those who are of the household of faith.

And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy that one; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.

And they entered in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Resh keeping all his bones; not one of them shall be broken.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumblingblock to those that are weak.

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

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

and thou shalt have a stake among thy weapons; and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig with it and shalt turn back and cover thy excrement;

And fear not those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to feed the congregation of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

and those members of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are more indecent have more honesty.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them and those who suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body.

for the LORD thy God walks in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore, shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee.

LORD, what is man that thou knowest him? or the son of man, that thou esteemeth him?

But be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not listen to the flesh, to fulfil its desires.

After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.

and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what shall it profit them?

If ye then are not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?