Bible Verses about โkeeping healthyโ
The Bible contains 30 verses about keeping healthy across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOr 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,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โI can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.โ
โTherefore 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.โ
โI will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.โ
โGod 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.โ
โBut those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.โ
โWhether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.โ
โIf anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.โ
โShe arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.โ
โFor 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.โ
โBeloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.โ
โbut I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.โ
โA cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.โ
โTest your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.โ
โDon't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.โ
โHe gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.โ
โIt will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.โ
โThen let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king's dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.โ
โSo he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.โ
โand he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."โ
โAt 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.โ
โSo the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.โ
โThen Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:โ
โBut 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.โ
โNow God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.โ
โThe prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.โ
โEven the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;โ
โPleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.โ
โThe life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.โ
