46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

'Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual.

the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;

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

'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

And he said unto his disciples, 'Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

and a nail thou hast on thy staff, and it hath been, in thy sitting without, that thou hast digged with it, and turned back, and covered thy filth;

'And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

for Jehovah thy God is walking up and down in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thee, and thy camp hath been holy, and He doth not see in thee the nakedness of anything, and hath turned back from after thee.

Jehovah, what is man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,

and any one of you may say to them, 'Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?

If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?