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.
“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.”
“"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.”
“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”
“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.”
“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”
“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.”
“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
“because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"”
“He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,”
“Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."”
“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.”
“That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
“Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.”
“There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.”
“Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.”
“"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."”
“The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.”
“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.”
“The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.”
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.”
“The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:”
“What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?”
“One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.”
“All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
“I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.”
“I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.”
“That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.”
“I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."”
“I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.”
“For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.”