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.
“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 can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.”
“God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”
“For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.”
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.”
“At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.”
“So the steward took away their dainties, 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 king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”
“The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.”
“Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.”
“He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.”