46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Can you live longer by worrying about it?

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

Make sure the light that is in you is not darkness.

Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor,

Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?

I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink. And do not worry about your body, what you will wear. Is life worth more than food? And is the body worth more than clothes?

Why are you worried about clothing? Look at how the lilies of the field grow. They do not toil. They do not spin.

Do not worry! Do not say: 'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?' or, 'What shall we wear?'

Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.

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

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

No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.

Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

Life is more than food and clothing.

There should be no division in the body. So the members should have the same care for each other.

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

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, who lives in us. Keep (guard) (obey) (preserve) the good things that have been entrusted to you.

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

When they hand you over, do not worry about what to say and how to say it. You will be given the words to speak at that time.

He told his disciples: Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you eat or what you wear on your body.

Those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are necessary.

Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.

If God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, won't he care for you even more? You of little faith!

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

God will destroy any man who defiles the temple of God! For the temple of God is holy. You are that temple!

When one member suffers all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it come the source of life.

When they entered they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Jehovah guards all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

There is 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. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Do not drink water any longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your many infirmities.

Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.

Keep a spade among your tools. When you sit down outside use the spade to dig and cover up your excrement.

Do not fear those who kill the body. They are not able to take away your [everlasting] life. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both life and body in the ever-burning fires. (Greek: Gehenna: continuously burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.)

Be on guard for yourselves and the flock that the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Feed the Congregation of God that he purchased with the blood of his own [Son].

And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability.

Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.

Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.

Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp. He is there to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

Jehovah, what is man, that you notice him or the son of man, that you regard him!

Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Joseph of Arimathaea was a disciple of Jesus. He approached Pilate secretly for fear of the Jews. He asked Pilate for permission to take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission. So he took the body away.

and one of you says to them: Go in peace, be warmed and filled; and yet you do not give them food and clothing, what good is it?

If you are not able to do even that which is least why worry about the rest?