39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

Are ye not much better than they? And which of you by taking thought can add to his age the smallest measure?

For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

Take heed therefore, left the light that is in thee be darkness.

That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Behold the birds of the air: they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take not thought for your life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

Therefore take not thought, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what shall we wear?

For bodily exercise profiteth a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Now no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also the Lord the church.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy gain, but of a ready mind,

The life is more than meat, and the body than raiment.

That there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care for each other:

Yet the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; afterward the spiritual.

The good thing which is committed to thee keep, through the Holy Spirit, who dwelleth in us.

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

But when they deliver you, take no thought, how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that very hour what ye shall speak.

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat, neither for the body what ye shall put on.

Yea, the members of the body, which appear to be weaker, are much more necessary.

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

Now: if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the still, will he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men; but especially to them who are of the houshold of faith.

If any man destroy the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

And whether one member suffer, all the members might suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members might rejoice with it.

And while they were perplexed concerning it,

But take heed, lest by any means this your liberty become a stumbling-block to the weak.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit: but the married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.

Neither present your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

And be not afraid of them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Take heed therefore to yourselves and to the whole flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

And those which we think to be the less honourable parts of the body, these we surround with more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Let the husband render the debt to the wife; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.

Remember them that are in bonds, as being bound with them, and them that suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the desires thereof.

And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews) asked Pilate leave, to take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.

and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

If ye then be not able to do that which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?