39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

"Which one of you by being anxious is able to add even one cubit to his stature?

For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he take charge of a church of God?

"Look carefully! Perhaps that very light of yours is darkness.

That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.

"Behold! the birds in the sky! They neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them; and are not you worth more than they?

"For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, inquiring what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body, inquiring what you shall wear. Is not your life more than its food, and your body than its clothing?

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

"Then do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'"

For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;

Be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly, and not through compulsion; not for filthy lucre, but with a willing mind;

"For the life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.

Now it is not the spiritual which is first, but the animal, and then the spiritual.

Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us.

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

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

Then he said to his disciples. "For this is the reason I say to you. Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor yet your body what shall you wear.

On the contrary, we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker;

"But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

"If God then so clothes the grass of the field, which blooms today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

When one member suffers, all the others suffer with it; and when one member is honored, all the members are glad with it.

and on entering they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but in secret because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took the body.

and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them?

"If then you cannot do even that which is least, why are you anxious concerning the rest?