Bible Verses about โtaking care of yourselfโ
The Bible contains 37 verses about taking care of yourself across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โDon't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.โ
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
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.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
โLet your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;โ
โThis is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,โ
โcasting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.โ
โbut in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.โ
โBe sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.โ
โYou husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.โ
โFor you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.โ
โWhether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.โ
โDon't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?โ
โBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:โ
โIn the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;โ
โIf anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.โ
โFor this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:โ
โseeing your pure behavior in fear.โ
โBeloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.โ
โFinally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,โ
โas Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.โ
โnot rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.โ
โBecause Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;โ
โThis is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,โ
โFor, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.โ
โwho before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.โ
โhaving a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.โ
โin which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,โ
โwho is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.โ
โFor the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."โ
โLet him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.โ
โFor it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.โ
โBut even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."โ
โNow who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?โ
โWithstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.โ
