58 Bible Verses about The Body

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1 Corinthians 12:17

If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

1 Corinthians 12:16

Or if the ear says 'Since I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it does not on that account cease to belong to the body.

1 Corinthians 6:13

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

1 Corinthians 12:14

The human body, I repeat, consists not of one part, but of many.

1 Corinthians 12:15

If the foot says 'Since I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it does not on that account cease to belong to the body.

1 Corinthians 12:23

And those parts which we deem less honorable we surround with special honor; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require.

1 Corinthians 12:21

The eye cannot say to the hand 'I do not need you,' nor, again, the head to the feet 'I do not need you.'

1 Corinthians 12:25

As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.

John 2:21

But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

Colossians 2:5

It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:22

No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;

1 Corinthians 12:20

But in fact, although it has many parts, there is only one body.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in union with Christ, who, fourteen years ago-- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows-- was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) to the third Heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:40

There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is not the beauty of the earthly.

2 Corinthians 12:3

And I know that this man--whether in the body or separated from the body I do not know; God knows--

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one');

Ephesians 1:23

For the Church is Christ's Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.

Philippians 3:21

Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.

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Romans 8:23

And not Nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit-we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as Sons-the redemption of our bodies.

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Altering The Body

1 Timothy 2:9-10

I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing,

Covering The Body

Acts 12:8

The chains dropped from his wrists, and then the angel said: "Put on your girdle and sandals." When Peter had done so, the angel added: "Throw your cloak round you and follow me."

Limitations Of The Body

Romans 4:19

Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.

Provision For The Body

Ephesians 5:29

For no one ever yet hated his own body. But every one feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the Church;

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