Bible Verses about βthe human bodyβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about the human body across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd 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.β
βWhat? 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?β
βSo God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.β
βΒΆ 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.β
βI will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.β
βDearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.β
βFor thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.β
βBefore I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.β
βΒΆ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.β
βMy substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.β
βIf it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.β
βThine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.β
βBe not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.β
βTherefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.β
βRecompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.β
βThou shalt not kill.β
βHaving then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;β
β[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;β
βRejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;β
βSo we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.β
βFor I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.β
βOr ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;β
βOr he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.β
βThou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;β
β[Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.β
βFor as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:β
βThou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:β
βRejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.β
βThou shalt have no other gods before me.β
βNot slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;β
βThou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.β
βDistributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.β
β[Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.β
βBless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.β
βThou shalt not commit adultery.β
βFor as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.β
βFor [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.β
βThou shalt not steal.β
βBut the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:β
βRemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.β
βThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.β
βThou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.β
βSix days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:β
βThe heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?β
βAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.β
βI [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.β
βAnd if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.β
βΒΆ And God spake all these words, saying,β
βNeither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.β
βYe shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.β
