Bible Verses about “harming your body”
The Bible contains 36 verses about harming your body across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
“‹Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?›”
“And he saith unto them, ‹Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man,› [it] ‹cannot defile him;›”
“‹Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed› [is] ‹willing, but the flesh› [is] ‹weak.›”
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.”
“¶ The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.”
“Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
“[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.”
“O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.”
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.”
“The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.”
“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”
“The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.”
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.”
“¶ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.”
“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”
“¶ [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”
“All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
“¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.”
“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.”
“[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”
“I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.”
“For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”