Bible Verses about “body language”
The Bible contains 50 verses about body language across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“‹The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.›”
“‹But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great› [is] ‹that darkness!›”
“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
“That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;”
“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”
“¶ For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.”
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.”
“But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.”
“For the body is not one member, but many.”
“¶ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”
“Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:”
“And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.”
“And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.”
“But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.”
“For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked:”
“And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.”
“That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.”
“¶ ‹Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.›”
“If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
“And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
“If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling?”
“And if they were all one member, where [were] the body?”
“Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?”
“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.”
“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;”
“To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;”
“To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:”
“[Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles?”
“Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.”
“But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.”
“But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.”
“And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.”
“And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.”
“¶ Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”
“‹And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.›”
“Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.”
“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”
“‹That they all may be one; as thou, Father,› [art] ‹in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.›”
“‹And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:›”
“‹I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.›”
“‹I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.›”
“Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”