Bible Verses about โtaking care of our bodyโ
The Bible contains 24 verses about taking care of our body 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
โGod created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.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
โWhether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.โ
โFor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;โ
โDon't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?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
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
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
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
โHe said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.โ
