Bible Verses about “anorexia”
The Bible contains 21 verses about anorexia across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”
“Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”
“But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."”
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
“He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”
“as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.”
“For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."”
“You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.”
“Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it."”
“You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.”
“Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.”
“Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"”
“She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.”
“Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.”
“Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.”
“Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.”