39 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Body

And who of you, by being anxious, can add to his stature one cubit?

(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);

Take heed, therefore, lest the light in you be darkness.

that each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor;

Behold the fowls of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye much more valuable than they?

Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink; nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

And why are ye anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin;

Be not, therefore, anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink!' or 'What shall we put on?'

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

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But 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 also Christ the assembly;

feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;

for the soul is more than the food; and the body, than the clothing.

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

And the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

The good deposit guard through the Holy Spirit Who dwelleth in us.

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

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

And He said to His disciples, "Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious for your soul, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on;

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

But seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

And, if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith!

So, then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, but especially to those of the household of the faith.

If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

and, entering, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your 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 those who kill the body, but 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, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit appointed you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

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

Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.

And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. He came, therefore, and took away His body.

and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit?

If, therefore, ye cannot do the least thing, why are ye anxious about the rest?