17 Bible Verses about The Human Body

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.

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.

And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

The light of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye is sound, your whole body will be light; but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

No one lights a candle and puts it in a secret place, or under a modius [1.916 gallon measure], but on a candlestick, that all who go in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye; when, therefore, your eye is sound, your whole body is light; but when your eye is evil, your whole body is dark. See, therefore, that the light which is in you be not darkness.read more.
If, therefore, your whole body is light, not having any part dark, the whole will be light, as when a candle lights you clearly.

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

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;

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;read more.
but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself.

let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body with pure water,

For in many things we all offend; if one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection also the whole body.

I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

And the tongue is a fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire by hell.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?