38 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?

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

that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,

Look at the birds of heaven; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into store-houses; but your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your soul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing?

And why are you anxious concerning clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they perform no hard labor, neither do they spin;

Be not anxious, therefore, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or with what shall we be clothed?

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

Is not the soul more than the food, and the body than the clothing?

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

But the spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

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

But when they have delivered you up be not anxious how you shall speak, or what you shall say, for it shall be given you in that hour what to say;

And he said to his disciples, I tell you, therefore, be not anxious for your soul what you shall eat, nor for the body what you shall put on.

but much more those members of the body which seem to be weak are necessary,

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

And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, men of little faith?

As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.

If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.

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

and entering, found not the body.

But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine on account of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

and those which we esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness,

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

Remember those bound as bound with them, and those injured as being yourselves also in the body.

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

After these things Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take down the body of Jesus; and Pilate permitted him. Then he came and took his body.

and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit?

And if you cannot do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?