Bible Verses About the Body

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb , sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

For bodily exercise profiteth little : but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means , when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour : yet what I shall choose I wot not.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.