Bible Verses About Body Soul and Spirit
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for body soul and spirit, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,996 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 5:23. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Body Soul and Spirit
1 Thessalonians 5:23603 votes
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.
Matthew 10:28415 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 12:7383 votes
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Hebrews 4:12364 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Genesis 2:7323 votes
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
James 2:26307 votes
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Galatians 5:16-17214 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20164 votes
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?
Luke 1:46-47159 votes
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
Romans 12:1-21159 votes
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.
Matthew 16:26157 votes
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
John 4:24143 votes
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Genesis 35:18138 votes
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
3 John 1:2121 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
1 Corinthians 2:14117 votes
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17111 votes
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
John 3:6100 votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Genesis 1:2798 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1 Corinthians 6:1796 votes
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Genesis 1:2694 votes
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.
Psalms 146:491 votes
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
1 Corinthians 15:35-5888 votes
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
Leviticus 19:2882 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:480 votes
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Revelation 6:9-1177 votes
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
What does the Bible say about body soul and spirit?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 5:23 on the subject of body soul and spirit. Across 7,996 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 10:28, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Hebrews 4:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.