Bible Verses about “health and fitness”
The Bible contains 17 verses about health and fitness 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.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
“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.”
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
“And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.”
“Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.”
“¶ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”
“¶ A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
“¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.”
“He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.”