Bible Verses about “self abuse”
The Bible contains 25 verses about self abuse 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.”
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“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.”
“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”
“Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
“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?”
“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”
“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”
“throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;”
“Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
“He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”
“for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,”
“Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.”
“For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.”
“Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
“For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;”
“For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.”
“Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”
“Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”
“He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.”