Bible Verses about “weight loss”
The Bible contains 22 verses about weight loss 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.”
“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.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“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.”
“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].”
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.”
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
“¶ ‹Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?›”
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
“¶ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”
“For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.”
“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, ‹With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.›”
“And Jesus said unto them, ‹I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.›”
“¶ [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.”